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    The document summarizes three sources that discuss the relationship between names and identity: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet about how names define families and fate, a BBC article on how names affect job prospects, and The Handmaid's Tale where women have their identities stripped via assigned names. It explores how names can identify people to themselves and others, and how having a new name assigned can challenge one's identity by making them become someone they weren't or lose themselves.

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    Dossier de synthèse

    – Can a name fully define who you are?

    Doc 1. Play Romeo and Juliet by playwright William Shakespeare, published


    in 1597
    Doc 2. Press article Why your name matters in the search for a job by
    journalist Rianna Croxford, published on BBC News in January 2019
    Doc 3. Dystopia The Handmaid’s Tale written by author Margaret Atwood,
    published in 1985

    1/ Your name as your identity

    a. Who you are

    b. Who you are for others

    2/ Your new name as your identity

    a. Who you have to be/come because of others

    b. Losing oneself?

    Possible first part of the introduction :

    A name identifies us and determines part of our relationship to the world and
    to others. Whether it translates a destiny, whether it generates
    representations – right or wrong, even misleading – whether it is the mark of
    submission or the standard of emancipation or rebellion, the name is
    significant and adorned with an important semantic and symbolic charge.
    Faced with the oppression of having a name imposed on oneself, wanting to
    recover one's name or militantly refusing to be named by others becomes a
    constitutive act of identity, relating to the affirmation or reconstruction of
    oneself.

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