There are various concepts about the self. These concepts can include self-concept, self-esteem, social comparison, self-consciousness, and self-awareness. In reading Threnody, I found that these concepts could be applied to the story and be applied to the main character, who was Threnody. After reading through the story, the concepts that I thought best applied to this story were self-concept and self-esteem. I think that Threnody displayed various concepts of the self, but I felt that these three were the most relevant concepts.
Self- concept is a knowledge that contains information about us (notes). Self-concept can also be thought of as how well we know ourselves and the characteristics that we possess as an individual. For Threnody, I …show more content…
Self-esteem is an evaluation of ourselves how favorably we evaluate ourselves (notes). I saw many examples of self-esteem and Threnody had a mixture of high and low self-esteem. When she talked about her childhood, she had pretty high self-esteemed. She mentions in the story that she thought of herself as a pretty child and liked the way she dressed when she went to school. I think the main example of Threnody’s low self-esteem came from her name. She talked about how she did not like her name and that she believed no one else liked her name besides her mother. She also talked about what her name meant and how that was going to influence her fate. “As for me, I belonged to no one and had my own fate. Threnody. Dirge or lament” (Weldon, pg. 600), this quotes struck out to me because it showed how much she disliked her name and took to heart what her name meant. I think that if someone doesn’t like their name, it can affect their self-esteem because they are not going to be confident in various aspects of their life. It also did not help that Threnody thought that the meaning of her name was going to decide her fate, as in her name predicted what type of future she was going to