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GAMSAT Section 2 quote prompts: Identity

1 GAMSAT-style prompt on identity. Each gives you five comments that disagree, so your job is to find the tension and argue a clear position. Give yourself about 30 minutes per essay.

Task B · ReflectivePrompt 1 of 1

Consider the following comments on identity.

  • Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

    Oscar Wilde

  • We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

    Kurt Vonnegut

  • I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

    Anonymous

  • The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

    Carl Jung

Write a reflective piece in response to one or more of these comments. Your essay will be assessed on the quality of your thinking and the way you express it.

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