Is this example relevant to the essay?

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<p>The only way for a woman, as for a man, to know herself as a person, is by a creative work of her own in a job that she can take seriously as part of a life plan, work in which she can grow as part of a society. There is no other way.
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Everything that irritates us about other can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: If there is any reaction, both are transformed.
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<p>Assignment: What must we do to truly understand ourselves? In your essay support your position by discussing an example (or examples) from literature, the arts, science and technology, history, current events, or your own experience and observation.</p>

<p>Example:
In the movie ‘the dark knight rises’, Batman is held captive in an underground pit. Overconfident due to his victories in the past, Batman believes that he can climb out of the pit, tied with the rope, but fails every time. Only when he realizes, that to earn freedom, he must risk his life and make the climb without the rope, he succeeds. Had he not faced the brutal truth, about risking his life, he would never have succeeded.</p>

<p><strong>I think that this example is not relevant</strong>.</p>

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<p>examples are relevant to theses, not to essay prompts. </p>

<p>Maybe if the thesis was that to truly understand yourself you had to be in a life or death situation with only yourself to rely on, you could use Batman in a pit as an example to support it.</p>

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<p>Only after accepting the truth, no matter how incredible it might seem, can we truly understand ourselves. So we have to be brutally honest and sincere.</p>

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<p>I think you have a lot of work to do to make a strongly reasoned argument using Batman with that thesis.</p>

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<p>You also need to review comma placement.</p>

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<p>In your example, Batman doesn’t learn anything about himself. He simply learns something about his situation.</p>

<p>“Only after accepting the truth, no matter how incredible it might seem, can we truly understand ourselves. So we have to be brutally honest and sincere.” - This insight could be used to address the question with a much better example than the Batman one.</p>