Claudius I Never Knew Thee.

The feeling of being different is sometimes very difficult to ignore: the sensation of standing out, and not fitting in amongst your peers or society. These sensations and feelings can be perceived because you yourself feel different, or because those around you are deliberately othering you. Ones experiences with their peers at a young age will soon reveal how well he or she fits into the dominant fantasy because they will be the first to notice the differences. Alice In Wonderland (Through the looking glass??) by Lewis Carroll, Pink Floyd's Another Brick in The Wall, and TBA each present us with a main character that deals with their clash of dominant fantasy between themselves and those around them. These clashes and differences create an identity for the characters in which they embrace their differences, successfully fighting the dominant fantasy, as well as becoming the part of the dominant fantasy that they feared most. The aspects of the final outcome for the characters have very similar and defining features that shaped most the main characters dominant fantasy and identity. The quest ends with a trial or a test in which the characters true identity is revealed to

Argument one - Clash With the Dominant Fantasy

* Experiences with peers and individuals of the same social class or demographic that place characters in positions which illustrate their clash with the dominant fantasy.

* Watershed events that out characters as being different, or outside of what society would consider normal.

* The self-realization that they are alternative to what the dominant fantasy would consider 'normal'.

* Felt like they had to fit in.

Argument two - Mothering Affect, Strong Female characters

* Strong female characters forced the main character to conform to an identity based on their own fantasy and what they considered natural and/or normal.

* Highly antagonistic, and quite influential

* Most events can be related back to this character.

Argument three - Judges of character/identity

* A trial or test takes place that examines the characters identity, either through an individual