Getting the Infamous
Suppose one day, you walk out of your manager's office, box in hand, head held low, walking towards your cubicle. Thinking just minutes before you entered the manager's office you were somebody, you had a purpose to society, and a job that needed to be filled. You based your identity on your role in society. But now, jobless, your self-esteem is at rock bottom, you have nothing to do, your identity had been shattered. Maybe you base your life around your identity which keeps you sane, you plea with the manager, showing your good works and improvements to the company. But still, you weren't able to convince your manager so you plunge out the 20-store building. Some people would just move on and find another role in society in a something similar or completely different. But there are those who are pessimistic and have to do this one specific job that they feel fulfills their life. Once taken away from them, their whole structure of a being falls apart shortly. In the story "The Non existent Knight," Calvino creates two characters, Agilulf and Torrismund, with this type of identity. Agilulf had no physical existence except for his voice. Along with having no friends or family, he felt being a knight is all that he could
Torrismund case of identity was with his status in power and hierarchy. "You're a knight, but you're generous! At last one who is! Stay with us! Tell us what you want; we'll give it to you. If only Agilulf had stayed longer for Sophronia explanation then he would still see his role to society. "In truth, Torrismund is not my son, but my brother or rather half-brother. "We wish to put forward the fact that the year had been a very bad one over the whole land of Koolwalden. We are at our wits' end even to feed our children. "(84)With his identity crises, he was an ordinary man again, who knew how to fight with a sword, but had no authority to do so. The most crucial part about himself was the identity of Knighthood. the Knights advanced with set lances towards the poor peasants. "(123) Torrismund is at a struggle in getting his status back, but he feels that this is wrong and joins side with the peasants. Since he declared to everyone that he is the son of Sophronia, it caused his identity, son of the Duke of Cornwall, to be void, which forfeited his military rights and other benefits. The Knights leave because of their sense of the "Grail" was telling them to. There, he doesn't know its Sophronia and ends up sleeping with her.
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