Recognition and realization are interlaced in meaning, but
not to be casually considered synonyms. Recognition is the commencing process
to identify something or someone that was previously known or experienced
through use of memory and senses. It is the precursor to realization, which is
the full comprehension of a person, place, memory and its meaning to the
individual. A person can have a realization, which can become fully engrained
as his own truth; Another individual can remain confined to the recognition
phase where all the remembered scents, sights, noises are bottled together but
immiscible, trapped rather as a faint recollection in one’s consciousness.
In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, The Savage
recognizes that the Reservation is an entirely different world from London.
Despite the myriad of actions and people he observes, it is not until Lenina,
the girl he has fallen in love with, throws herself on him with lust rather
than love that he comes to the realization that this “brave new world” is not a
place he can accept or consider home.
Charlotte Bartlett, from A Room with a View by E.M.
Forster, immediately realizes that Lucy Honeychurch’s present is
indistinguishable from her own past. Becoming nostalgic for what could have
been, Charlotte meticulously strives for Lucy and George Emerson to wed. George
recognizes that Charlotte approves of their relationship, while Lucy
continually believes Charlotte is aiming to separate. Despite the signs,
neither individual comes to the full realization that it has been Charlotte all
along sedulously thrusting them together.
Recognition
and realization are ultimately based on an individual’s own perception. The act
of recognition may be the stepping-stone to realization, but until a person
accepts his own version of truth, the recognition of a person, place, memory
leaves an individual in a somewhat nebulous state until this recollection is
left behind for something more important.
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