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Connecting Hamlet, and Pride and Prejudice into everyday, senior year life. I felt that this was a good topic to discuss because so many of us are going through this right now. Pressure. Whether it is peer-pressure, pressure from our families, our teachers, or our college counselors, we are going through a very important time in our lives. Just like in Pride and Prejudice, where women are usually forced to conform to the way of life, and marry someone for security rather than love, or in Hamlet, where the passion protagonist was forced to stay calm, and not act out and ordered by his step father. Pressure goes on in novels, and in everyday life. For us, the main topic is college. Which college we will get into, where we will go, what college will make us go the farthest. Sometimes I step back and have to realize that at the end of the day it is what I want, what WE want, not what all of the adult figures want for us. It is stressful. Just like the stress Hamlet faced, or the stress Liz faced when she did not want to marry Collins. Pressure is everywhere.