Selfhood

I agree with the idea of selfhood presented in " Beauty: When The Other Dancer Is The Self" by Alice Walker. The way selfhood is shown throughout the essay all ties together from her childhood up until she was an adult. Alice Walker framed a very particular idea of selfhood in her essay “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self” when she talks about her prettiness at the beginning of the essay until one day her world turn to what seemed upside down. In the midst of playing with her siblings, Walker’s ends up getting hit in her right eye which resulted with her having a “hideous cataract” as she believes. Now, her perspective of selfhood changes and she believes that she isn’t the “prettiest” girl that she once use to be because of an “accident” that happened to her. She later grows up and starts a family on her own. When Walker is putting her little girl down for a nap, she fears that she’s will be hated and rejected by her own blood, but something about the way her daughter’s eyes way looking at her made her realize that her eyes was a world on it own. At this point, Walker realize that the selfhood she once rejected still had beauty within it. The idea of selfhood presented in this essay teaches us to still love ourselves even with our flaws.