Assignment task:
Text: "Ten Days in a Mad-House" by Nellie Bly (StudySync) Compare to: Act II of Hamlet Connection: In 1887, reporter Nellie Bly went on an undercover assignment for the New York World newspaper in which she feigned insanity in order to be involuntarily committed to the Blackwell's Island Insane Asylum. Her experiments in feigning madness compare with Hamlet's actions, although their reasons for trying to fool the world couldn't be more different Compare and contrast the ways in which Nellie Bly and Hamlet pretend to be crazy. Identify three strategies that Nellie employs and compare them to three strategies that Hamlet uses. What do the strategies they use reveal about them as characters? Compose your answer in a response using liberal examples from both Ten Days in a Mad-House and Hamlet. Paragraphs, integrate quotes with parenthetical citations, and employ all measures of good writing.