PERT (personal response to text) YOU CAN RESPOND IN ANY FORM OF POSE: 1. Crtical
PERT (personal response to text)
YOU CAN RESPOND IN ANY FORM OF POSE:
1. Crtical analysis of a text in the exam
2. CPU – Critical Personal Universal (combination of a personal and critical)
ASSIGNMENT:
Women in Elizabethan England were in many ways considered property of men. In Hamlet, no character exemplifies this more than Ophelia. She is used by her father, Claudius, and Hamlet; they deride and mistreat her with little regard for the impact their actions will have on her emotional well-being. She has no choices because the men in her life have taken this freedom from her. In the end, it is this lack of volition that drives her to lose control and give up her life.
In essence, Ophelia faces the same existential crisis as Hamlet, but in the end, he is given the choice to overcome his angst, while she is overcome by it and takes her own life.
Read the following poem, and reflecting on the ideas above, answer the following question: What does the text suggest to you about an individual’s perceived sense of power as it relates to their ability to control their own destiny? Support your idea(s) with reference to one or more of the texts presented and to your previous knowledge and/or experience.
“out of range” by Ani DiFranco
just the thought of our bed makes me crumble like the plaster where you punched the wall beside my head and i try to draw the line but it ends up running down the middle of me most of the time boys get locked up in some prison girls get locked up in some house and it don’t matter if it’s a warden or a lover or a spouse you just can’t talk to ’em you just can’t reason you just can’t leave and you just can’t please ’em i was locked into being my mother’s daughter i was just eating bread and water thinking nothing ever changes and i was shocked to see the mistakes of each generation will just fade like a radio station if you drive out of range if you’re not angry you’re just stupid or you don’t care how else can you react when you know something’s so unfair the men of the hour can kill half the world in war make them slaves to a super power and let them die poor baby i love you that’s why i’m leaving there’s no talking to you and there’s no pleasing you and i care enough that i’m mad that half the world don’t even know what they could have had i was locked into being my mother’s daughter i was just eating bread and water thinking nothing ever changes and i was shocked to see the mistakes of each generation will just fade like a radio station if you drive out of range
Women in Elizabethan England were in many ways considered property of men. In Hamlet, no character exemplifies this more than Ophelia. She is used by her father, Claudius, and Hamlet; they deride and mistreat her with little regard for the impact their actions will have on her emotional well-being. She has no choices because the men in her life have taken this freedom from her. In the end, it is this lack of volition that drives her to lose control and give up her life.
In essence, Ophelia faces the same existential crisis as Hamlet, but in the end, he is given the choice to overcome his angst, while she is overcome by it and takes her own life.
Read the following poem, and reflecting on the ideas above, answer the following question: What does the text suggest to you about an individual’s perceived sense of power as it relates to their ability to control their own destiny? Support your idea(s) with reference to one or more of the texts presented and to your previous knowledge and/or experience.
“out of range” by Ani DiFranco
just the thought of our bed makes me crumble like the plaster where you punched the wall beside my head and i try to draw the line but it ends up running down the middle of me most of the time boys get locked up in some prison girls get locked up in some house and it don’t matter if it’s a warden or a lover or a spouse you just can’t talk to ’em you just can’t reason you just can’t leave and you just can’t please ’em i was locked into being my mother’s daughter i was just eating bread and water thinking nothing ever changes and i was shocked to see the mistakes of each generation will just fade like a radio station if you drive out of range if you’re not angry you’re just stupid or you don’t care how else can you react when you know something’s so unfair the men of the hour can kill half the world in war make them slaves to a super power and let them die poor baby i love you that’s why i’m leaving there’s no talking to you and there’s no pleasing you and i care enough that i’m mad that half the world don’t even know what they could have had i was locked into being my mother’s daughter i was just eating bread and water thinking nothing ever changes and i was shocked to see the mistakes of each generation will just fade like a radio station if you drive out of range.
Word Count: 800 – 1200 words.