ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the view how language is inevitable for all human discourses; how entities in these discourses for their very existence have to be dependent on the linguistic structure; and how they are merely “linguistic constructs”, or, in other words, are impossible outside linguistic signification system. It reflects on how amongst many other, identity too is a “linguistic construction” at large; and since the connotations and meanings of linguistically constructed entities and signs keep changing, so do those of identity. The present human world of discourses is inarguably permeated by language, be they the discourses of sexuality, power, consciousness, and so on. Hence language can also be said to be the prison of discourses. The chapter also attempts to investigate Margaret Atwood’s novel Cat’s Eye. Cat’s Eye is the seventh novel by the famous novelist Margaret Atwood from the perspective of language and identity formation.
