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Three Favorite Texts From Semester One
A Discussion of My Favorite Texts

Have you ever studied certain texts that stuck out to you because you had a personal connection with them? Well that is exactly what happened when I read my three favorite texts from the selection that we had in the first semester. Not every single one has a message directed to society as a whole, but rather me as a whole. I chose three texts that were my favorite, they are Hamlet Act 2, Macbeth Act 1 and 2, and the poem mourning. Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, has to do with the deception between a mother and a son after the father is no longer in the picture, and the effects that it has on the story. Macbeth, also by William Shakespeare, is a “inherited” king and …show more content…

To begin, the plot of Hamlet is clearly decepted from the beginning. No wife remarrys after the “death” of her husband and feels no mourning at all. From the beginning, there is a suspense as to why this text is messed up, and I think that is one reason as to why I connected with this text. My favorite quote in this text is said by Hamlet himself to His mother in Act 1, Scene 2, “Not even an animal or beast, who has no reasoning skills, would have abandoned the mourning so quickly.” I like this quote the best, because Hamlet is saying how there is no humanly way possible that his mother could have moved on to loving another man as quickly as she did, if she ever loved the first in the first place. When there was an affair going on in my family, there was obviously a whole bunch of suspense in my household, enough so that it made everyone in my house paranoid, just like how Hamlet became paranoid once he knew something was going on with the death and remarriage in the kingdom. This I can relate to myself because I was beginning to go crazy, so I seemed, because the internal conflicts I was having with myself were getting the best of me. In the text Hamlet, if it were not for his internal conflicts, than he would not have been going as crazy as he seemed. It is one of my favorite because not only is it a good text to read, but it has …show more content…

This text has to do with a lover leaving his partner, and expecting them to not mourn their leaving. This text can be related to me in my life in a certain way. Someone that I loved expected me to not be sad when they were exiting my life for good. When I read this text, I was able to connect with it, because I learned that just because someone leaves, it doesn’t mean that they don’t love you anymore. The texts by John Donne are organized from being harsh, to being kind when it comes to the heart. That way you can see the way that the heart changes from the beginning to the end. My favorite quote from the text “Mourning” is on page 485, lines 21-24, “Our two souls therefore, which are one, though I must go, endure not yet a breach, but an expansion, like gold to airy thinness beat.” This quote explains how even though two people are connected by the soul, that they still can go forward in their life and be okay. This showed me that I was able to move on and be okay when I thought I wasn’t going to ever be again. This is an important message to learn, because most people think that they cannot go on in their lives when they are hurt, so they often give

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