- Aug 2024
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When they first engage in sexual intercourse, Oliver proposes: “Call me by your nameand I’ll call you by mine” (134). This exchange of name identity is supposed to symbolize theirunity. Yet, based on what has been discussed before, it is questionable how they can extendtheir identity like that if neither of them knows who they are or hide parts of themselves fromeach other so that a complete picture of neither “Elio” nor “Oliver” is available. T
I disagree once again, the problem is that Elio could not ever define himself or conflate himself, and Oliver had known that was impossible from the start. their exchanging of identity through sex was a show of development for Elio in understanding the true nature of identity.
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Amor ch’a null’amato amar perdona.
Maybe this: Love which exempts no one from loving in return, by dante, shows that love is a reflection of the self and an understanding of one's identity.
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- Jul 2024
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he channels Echo often in the novel whenhe describes his contemplative repetitions of things Oliver says to him in his dreams or inactuality. He has a dream that Oliver says, “you’ll kill me if you stop,” which happens in hisdreams on various other occasions, and Elio holds onto this phrase until the two of them finallyconsummate their love and Elio repeats the phrase aloud several times
Basically, Echo is reinforcing the idea of interpersonal identification. Although in the dream Oliver says "you'll kill me if you stop", the phrase is actually said by Elio -- showing how they desire one another both to have each other but also to be one another. Through the exchanging and replacing of words. How do words and speech represent or shape identity?
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- May 2024
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he threw me a very large one, saying, “Yours,”
He is giving himself to Elio much like he partook in enjoying himself via. the Apricot juice, because perhaps he sees himself in Elio, and thus can share himself with the other?
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