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This paper examines crises of identity as they are portrayed in Miyazaki Hayao's Spirited Away, Satoshi Kon's Paprika, and Oshii Mamoru's Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, and focuses on the fact that traits of fantasy and monstrosity are used as vehicles to explore the self. Such representation reflects the doubts of a society in which people are often uncomfortable with, or lack understanding of, ... read moretheir own identity. This paper argues that changeablility and transformation are becoming a part of how people see the contemporary self, and these buried issues of monstrosity hint at an unease with how identity is constructed, and how the individual views their own self.read less
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