[See Rasmussen 1995, for a helpful discussion of Ricoeur's conception of narrative identity.] We make sense of our own personal identities in much the same way as we do of the identity of characters in stories.
Lee was impressed with how the bootstrapped studio has carved out a definite identity of characters, and sees potential in the franchise expanding to merchandising, tv and other platforms, similar to the way Rovio has expanded its Angry Birds empire.
The dancers, typically males ranging in age from 9 to 65, wear intricately painted masks that depict different mythological characters, taking on the identity of the character as they dance.
Hair was central to the identities of characters on some shows.
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Cohen said the corporation was looking to be increasingly sophisticated in the way it interacts with audiences on social media, for instance using the identities of characters from a BBC drama.
It's arguable that many of the best Italian writers of the 20th century (Silone, Sciascia, even Gadda) used that sophisticated, bewildering "yellow" genre: events happen without explanation, so that the reader is never sure of the moral identities of characters or of the reach of their power.
Brigitte Reiffenstuel's costumes ably establish the contrasting cultural identities of characters.
They believe that by changing the racial identity of the character, they have changed something inherently necessary in the character, a trait that made them the heroes that we perceive them to be.
