Identify and give the significance of the following term. Your answer (about 250 words) should first show that you are familiar with the meaning of the term or phrase and the context in which it appeared in the course, its relationship/relevance to specific readings, as well as its significance in the larger context of the course.
Persona
Persona is the role a character takes on. For example, Frida Kahlo was such an enigmatic character where she takes her art into a form of life writing transforming it into life painting. She was very interested in preserving her authenticity as a Mexican in her famous self-portraits where she is looking directly at the viewer. It almost seems like her persona is screaming right at the audience. Her persona was not only a Mexican-European woman, but she was also a painter, a homosexual, a person with disability, a feminist, and a political communist. She painted the traumatic, painful, passionate moments in her life in order to fully express her persona.
ReplyDeleteA persona is a constructed self; it is a perception or idea about a person rather than the actual person themself.
ReplyDeleteFrida Kahlo was considered a persona; she had many staged portraits in which she was not always meant to be seen as realistic (hence, she was presenting a fabricated or deliberate interpretation of herself rather than her true character). This means that she was often in control of creating her own persona and the ways in which she was perceived by the public. Furthermore, she deliberately wore indigenous Mexican clothing to contrast Western-style clothing in order to make a particular stance. Because this choice was politicized, it reads as an artificial portrayal constructed by Frida rather than Frida in her true, natural essence.
A persona relates to the ways in which people identify or interpret a person; specifically, it refers to an artificial construct of a particular person. Frida Kahlo was a cultural object who is frequently portrayed in popular culture, often to communicate a certain message (for example, she has been adopted as a symbol of the disability movement). These aspects of her identity are constructs that often serve a politicized purpose; they relate, therefore, to Frida Kahlo the persona rather than Frida Kahlo the person. The two entities, therefore, are separate.
A persona is the self that the author/writer constructs for the reader/viewer. For example, Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter famously know for her self portraits. Through these paintings, she moulded her persona for the world to see. She was made handicapped after being involved in an accident with a bus colliding with a trolley, which left her with serious spinal injuries. In this time of pain and recovery, is what influenced her paintings at that time. She also identified as a bisexual, which influenced her work. Political communism and heartbreak were also factors that affected Frida Kahlo's masterpieces. Her paintings are her personas she had made for us to witness and to live vicariously through and to witness her life story at each stage. Therefore in this case, Frida Kahlo is the author painting a self for us viewers to interpret.
ReplyDeletePersona is the self that the author constructs for the reader. Frida Kahlo is the perfect example of persona, as she paints portraits of herself, but creates a version of herself for the word to see. After an accident that left her handicapped due the seriousness of her spinal injuries. During her time of recovery, she used her accident as inspiration for her paintings. Along with her accident, she also used her political views and the fact that she was bisexual as inspiration. In a way, a person can live vicariously through one of her paintings, as if they were Frida. In her paintings, Frida embraces her Mexicanism through painting herself wearing indigenous Mexican clothing in order to contrast western-styles. But, rather than people picking it up as the true version of herself, people found it to be artificial.
ReplyDeletePersona refers to the self-image of a character that the author creates for readers. Often times, authors may construct a specific type of persona to make their message more effective or tangible for readers. The example of persona discussed in class was from George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant”. The persona Orwell creates for the narrative influences us readers to think he is just like everyone else and that we understand and sympathize with the narrator’s conflict because we would have made the same decisions had we been in his position. In a sense this use of persona is like using pathos because it appeals to emotion and shared values, which Orwell is convincing his readers have in common with him. As well as Orwell’s use of persona, Frida Kahlo’s imaginative use of persona was also discussed in lecture with the aid of her art. She used her self-portraits as a form of expressing a particular persona of herself. Many of her portraits possess a surreal quality that takes away from its realism but reveals something expressive that Kahlo cleverly uses to provide her character with a particular persona.
ReplyDeletePersona is a fabricated self. It is not necessarily a front, but instead just a side of oneself which one presents to the public. This fabricated self can be displayed in a form of art, as did Frida Kahlo. Frida used her talent to paint portraits that displayed a different (usually much darker) side that she was not able to exhibit any other way. Her art took on a different persona from what even those closest to her had ever witnessed. Looking at her art gave its viewers a vivid idea of what her true self must be like, without even knowing her personally.
ReplyDeletePersona can be defined as the role a character takes on; it is a constructed self. When we watched the movie Frida in class we seen a character named Frida who was a painter. She would use her paintings to create an image of herself, which resulted in her developing a new persona through the paintings that the public received. Early in her life, Frida was a victim of a horrible car accident that left her handicapped and unable to walk. In her injured state, Frida used her paintings inorder to release some of the pain she would feel. Frida would paint emotions ranging from joy to heartbreak through her paintings and each garnered a great deal of success because the consumers were able to truly feel the emotions placed on the canvas. Those emotions were a part of Frida’s created persona because she took on each role and accepted them as her own person.
ReplyDeleteA persona is a way for someone to express a certain side of themselves to the public that they don't normally use to describe themselves with. Authors can create personas through the characters in their novels, to create a more relatable character or to have a great impact on the reader. Frida Kahlo created paintings of herself , usually seen as a darker or sadder version of herself. She used an accident from her past that left her handicapped to inspire this new persona she decided to paint.
ReplyDeletePersona can be described as the way a person portrays themselves for others to see. An example of a persona is Frida Kahlo and her self-portraits. Every time she painted a self-portrait, she was a creating a new persona for herself and for others to view. She was left disabled after an accident and she painted her self-portraits to illustrate who she is on the inside, that her disability did not define her. By creating these self-portraits, she was in control of who she was and what she appeared to be and how others viewed her.
ReplyDeletePersona can be described as the way a person portrays themselves for others to see. An example of a persona is Frida Kahlo and her self-portraits. Every time she painted a self-portrait, she was a creating a new persona for herself and for others to view. She was left disabled after an accident and she painted her self-portraits to illustrate who she is on the inside, that her disability did not define her. By creating these self-portraits, she was in control of who she was and what she appeared to be and how others viewed her.
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ReplyDeletePersona is a role that is adopted by an actor. A persona can also be seen as the thing that defines a character. In the movie Frida, a young woman who had a serious injury because of a car accident is seen painting throughout the entire movie. She paints several self-portraits to exemplify who she is on the inside and how she does not want her disability to define her. She also paints about many of the difficulties she is faced with like heartbreaks, the Mexican culture, and feminism. The trauma and emotions that Frida paints about create her persona.