What do the authors seem to suggest, based on these examples, about how we adhere to or argue for change in traditions?

Ramabai “childhood” and “married life” chapters 2-3
The Garden of Forking paths Jorge Luis Borges
Hedda Gabler-Henry Ibsen

In the readings from the middle three weeks of this course, we often see authors or characters contemplating tradition. They may be reflecting on traditional ethnic or religious cultures, family traditions, or traditional behavior or attitudes. In your exam, use at least three specific examples from assigned texts to show how we see characters reflecting on tradition or arguing for or against particular traditional behaviors or customs (and your three examples cannot use the same author twice—for example, you cannot use both chapters by Ramabai or more than one story by Tagore and count them as two of the three examples). What traditions are represented in these texts? What do the authors seem to suggest, based on these examples, about how we adhere to or argue for change in traditions? Can any of the reflection on these past traditions still apply to the way we view traditions today? This exam should be entirely your own argument, and you are not allowed to use any secondary material in this exam

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