CRITICAL ESSAY EXEMPLARS:

Prompt: an individual’s attempt to live unconstrained by convention or circumstance (June 2007)

Pride and Prejudice –  (comparison 2 paragraph essay)

a breaking of convention to obtain happiness – polished critical

Death of a Salesman

A Wrong Dream: Polished Critical

Their Eyes Were Watching God

the pursuit of the horizon: polished critical

 

Prompt: ways in which individuals struggle to restore honour and certainty (Jan 2009)

Hamlet (Ophelia)

An Honourable Woman – Polished Critical

Hamlet 

Overthinking It – Hamlet Critical Essay

Hamlet

Doubt Begets Doubt

Hamlet (Ophelia)

The Uncertainty of Femininity

Hamlet 

“Purpose is but the Slave to the Memory”: Death and the Desire to Restore One’s Honour and Certainty (Hamlet Critical Essay)

 

Prompt: the significance of idealism and truth in an individual’s life (June 2009)

Frankenstein

Quixotry As it Dies

Frankenstein

Hollow Idealism (Polished Critical)

Frankenstein

Polished Critical, The Pursuit of an Ideal without Accountability to Truth

 

Prompt: – the ways in which individuals take responsibility for themselves or others (June 2010)

Death of a Salesman

Polished Critical: Responsibility for One’s Self when Lacking Identity

Death of a Salesman

The Dream of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman

Of Ranchers and Salesmen

The Great Gatsby

Death, Dreams, and Daisies: Another Polished Critical

 

Prompt: the role adversity plays in shaping an individual’s identity. (June 2011)

Night

Progressive Deterioration of Identity – Polished Critical

Night

Forfeiting the Conflict Against Adversity – Polished Critical on Elie Wiesel’s Night

 

Prompt: an individual’s capacity for self-sacrifice in the face of compelling circumstances. (June 2013)

Night

Self-sacrifice vs. Self-preservation- Polished Critical

 

Prompt: the role self-perception plays when individuals seek to reconcile the conflict between illusion and reality. (June 2014)

A Streetcar Named Desire

The Looking Glass

A Streetcar Named Desire (Blanche) compared to The Picture of Dorian Grey (Sybil)

The Truth of Magic–Polished Critical

Picture of Dorian Grey

Critical: The Effect of Self-Perception on the Conflict Between Illusion and Reality

 

Prompt: the ways in which an individual’s resilience is shaped by empathy. (June 2015)

Frankenstein

Polished Critical: The Obsessive Quest for Empathy

A Thousand Splendid Suns

The Looking Glass