"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell so sweet?"
By any other name would smell so sweet?"
Shakespeare said it. Both Jamaica Kincaid and Linda Hogan continued to question it. So what does a name really mean? If we name someone upon their birth, without yet knowing them, is the name reflective of their personality?
LUCINDA: Short for Lucifer [Satan himself].
Before the reference to the definition of her name, Lucy says, "I felt like Lucifer, doomed to build wrong upon wrong." Do you always live up to your name? Or is it just a coincidence that her name directly relates to how she feels and acts?
OMISHTO: Means "She who watches".
The first few pages of the novel describe in great detail her surrounding and all of the sounds she hears and things she sees. She obviously lives up to her name of "she who watches."
Is your fate decided the moment you are named or do we really have free will?
If you were named something else when you were born, would you have the same personality or would your defining characteristics be completely different?
LUCINDA: Short for Lucifer [Satan himself].
Before the reference to the definition of her name, Lucy says, "I felt like Lucifer, doomed to build wrong upon wrong." Do you always live up to your name? Or is it just a coincidence that her name directly relates to how she feels and acts?
OMISHTO: Means "She who watches".
The first few pages of the novel describe in great detail her surrounding and all of the sounds she hears and things she sees. She obviously lives up to her name of "she who watches."
Is your fate decided the moment you are named or do we really have free will?
If you were named something else when you were born, would you have the same personality or would your defining characteristics be completely different?
interesting.. do you make the name or does the name make you? hmmm...
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