Double Consciousness

Double Consciousness
Have you ever been misjudged, or misread, or been called something that you were not? Or have you been seen as something different through somebody else’s eyes. They have developed an identity for you. This may, or may not be true, but on the inside, you know what your true identity is. Writers often write a story that they can personally relate to or represent it through the eyes and mouth of another. Sometimes writers, however, have been seen through the eyes of others to send a message completely different from what the writer wants to convey. The idea that is in their head may be different from what the reader reads, or they just represent something that they are not. This is the theory of double consciousness, the idea of being something else in someone’s eyes than what they feel inside. Many writers from the past through today write about double consciousness but the way in which it is portrayed is very different for each writer.
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