ABSTRACT
We are also interested in what happens to identities after people die. Survivors can come to know their dead loved ones in new ways. In this sense, the known identity of this person changes. Bakhtin illustrates this point by saying that Shakespeare, the great writer, is different from the identity of Shakespeare, the writer in his own day. Bakhtin (1986) says:
We can say that neither Shakespeare hirnself nor his conternporaries knew that "great Shakespeare" whorn we know now .... He has grown because of that which actually has been and continues to he found in his works, hut which neither he hirns elf nor his conternporaries could consciously perceive and evaluate in the context ofthe culture oftheir own epoch (p. 4).
