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This 3 page paper is a personal essay of what a student can learn from Shakespeare and Sophocles about actions speaking louder than words. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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impacted a students way of looking at the world and the way he conducts himself. Discussion A personal essay gives a student the opportunity to share something of himself; its
much less formal than a researched paper and should be fun for everyone concerned. A student writing such a paper about how reading changed him might do something like the
following. Over the last year Ive read a great many plays, including Hamlet and Antigone. At first I thought the way everyone does: that Shakespeares language is too difficult and
stilted to be of any use to a contemporary person, and that Sophocles is even further removed in time and thus even less relevant. Imagine my surprise when I found
I could understand Shakespeare easily and the translation of Sophocles made that clear as well. I also found that the themes these writers discuss are still part of society-were still
jealous, unhappy, warlike and mixed up, and at times we do things that are incredibly stupid and at other times, our actions are absolutely sublime. Thats what I learned: that
actions really do speak louder than words. Words are important but unless a person backs them up with action theyre just words. This is apparent in Hamlet in many ways.
First, when Polonius asks Hamlet what hes reading, Hamlet says "Words, words, words" (II.ii.192). This is an interesting line since it indicates that words are important and at the same
time, that they can be just thrown away without considering them further. But the line that I liked best in the play is when Gertrude is trying to find
out whats wrong with Hamlet, whos pretending to be mad, and Polonius comes to talk to her and the King, saying that hes found out the "very cause of Hamlets
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