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Finding an Identity in Marie de France’s Bisclavret and St. Augustine’s Confessions
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The Contrasting Quest for Finding an Identity in Marie de France's Bisclavret and St. Augustine's Confessions In both Marie de France's Bisclavret and St. Augustine's Confessions, the main characters' identity is connected in some way with his material possessions. St. Augustine seeks a new identity within the church. He views his house, clothes, role in society and other possessions as aspects of his secular life and secular self, which he wants to separate from his new true religious self within the church. In Bisclavret, Bisclavret turns into a werewolf and loses everything that defined his true self: his house, his possessions and his role in society are all lost when he assumes the identity of a were wolf. In Bisclavret and Confessions, both characters want to distinguish themselves from their self their a true identity, the latter being the form that the character feels best expresses who he is....
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