Be Yourself; everyone else is already taken. -Oscar Wilde
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” -Oscar Wilde
In society, there are many issues to deal with but there are also ways to make life much easier. Individuality has been an ongoing problem because society as a whole distances themselves from people being individuals and rather pushes towards the “cookie cutter” standards. Lack of individuality can be a result of low self-esteem and mistreatment meaning that in order to disguise those flaws one would feel the need to be someone they aren’t. The message Wilde is trying to convey to the audience from this quote is the importance of one’s role in society is greater than what it seems to be. Since everyone has a place in this world, Wilde encourages his audience to never let that place be vacant.
According to the high society, this problem arises the most within the media. One idea that is believed to be a huge problem, among teenagers especially, is the ability to kill all individuality through social media. There is a television show on MTV called Catfish and it highlights the point that people all throughout the United States are trying to be someone else other than themselves through social media websites. Instead of going out and engaging in their own moments, people are just taking these images and living vicariously through other people’s moments. Most of the individuals on this show all had a common drawback within themselves relating to some sort of self-esteem issue and the pressure of not fitting into society.
It feels good to be yourself, unabashedly and unapologetically, and to have people appreciate that self. Many celebrities embrace individuality and they share that with the rest of their fan base who mostly look up to them as a role model. One celebrity in particular who eats, sleeps, and breathes the notion of individuality is Lady Gaga. In an interview she mentions “I will quit if I have to be something other than myself. I’ll be myself until they close the coffin,” suggesting
In society, there are many issues to deal with but there are also ways to make life much easier. Individuality has been an ongoing problem because society as a whole distances themselves from people being individuals and rather pushes towards the “cookie cutter” standards. Lack of individuality can be a result of low self-esteem and mistreatment meaning that in order to disguise those flaws one would feel the need to be someone they aren’t. The message Wilde is trying to convey to the audience from this quote is the importance of one’s role in society is greater than what it seems to be. Since everyone has a place in this world, Wilde encourages his audience to never let that place be vacant.
According to the high society, this problem arises the most within the media. One idea that is believed to be a huge problem, among teenagers especially, is the ability to kill all individuality through social media. There is a television show on MTV called Catfish and it highlights the point that people all throughout the United States are trying to be someone else other than themselves through social media websites. Instead of going out and engaging in their own moments, people are just taking these images and living vicariously through other people’s moments. Most of the individuals on this show all had a common drawback within themselves relating to some sort of self-esteem issue and the pressure of not fitting into society.
It feels good to be yourself, unabashedly and unapologetically, and to have people appreciate that self. Many celebrities embrace individuality and they share that with the rest of their fan base who mostly look up to them as a role model. One celebrity in particular who eats, sleeps, and breathes the notion of individuality is Lady Gaga. In an interview she mentions “I will quit if I have to be something other than myself. I’ll be myself until they close the coffin,” suggesting