Personal response to texts. Personal Response To Texts
Study the following three texts and prepare a 2 page personal response on the topic.
In Hamlet’s third soliloquy, he ponders the nature of life and death and how these concepts are understood by various people in society according to customary beliefs. In Ronnie Jiang’s painting “The Struggle is Real” he depicts a woman’s feelings seemingly at odds with other aspects of her personality. In the excerpt from Tennyson’s poem “In Memoriam” the speaker expresses their reflections on life in its more challenging moments.
The Assignment
What do these texts suggest to you about the effect that external pressures can exert upon our choices and perceptions in life? Support your idea(s) with references to one or more of the texts presented and to your previous knowledge and/or experience.
In your writing, you must
• use a prose form
• connect one or more of the texts provided to your own ideas and impressions
