Thesis statement due Friday 22nd, in preparation for an in-class essay to be written on Friday, with typed, final draft due Monday 25th.
Value of Life Essay Prompt: William Shakespeare’s soliloquies in Hamlet, Terence Malick’s experimental film “The Tree of Life,” and Roger Ebert’s essay “The Essential Man” provide various points of view on the ways in which we as a society value human life. The goal of this module is to inquire into different ways writers have probed and represented the value of human life. The key objective for students is to make connections among the various texts, to explore their similar questions, and then write an essay about their own perceptions of how life should be valued.
In a well-thought out essay, explore the meaning of the value of life through the perspectives of Shakespeare, Malick, and Ebert, and in the process, ultimately, express your own evaluation of how life should be valued.
Value of Life Essay Prompt: William Shakespeare’s soliloquies in Hamlet, Terence Malick’s experimental film “The Tree of Life,” and Roger Ebert’s essay “The Essential Man” provide various points of view on the ways in which we as a society value human life. The goal of this module is to inquire into different ways writers have probed and represented the value of human life. The key objective for students is to make connections among the various texts, to explore their similar questions, and then write an essay about their own perceptions of how life should be valued.
In a well-thought out essay, explore the meaning of the value of life through the perspectives of Shakespeare, Malick, and Ebert, and in the process, ultimately, express your own evaluation of how life should be valued.