Does culture shape art/literature or does literature/art shape culture?

Answer the following questions by analyzing each work:

1.Does culture shape art/literature or does literature/art shape culture?
2.How do gender, race, ethnicity, belief, education, family and/or culture affect identity?
3.What does it mean to be human?

Your essay must:

1. be at least 5 paragraphs (1,000 words)
2. Each body paragraph must discuss one of the works (3 body paragraphs in total)
3.use MLA style (for heading, pagination, in-text citations, works cited page, etc.)
4.quote from the works for support
5.include a works cited page
6.and ANALYZE and REFLECT on what you have read throughout the semester
( I uploaded a “everything in the semester for this question)
7.Address the prompt questions

Works:
1. My English” by Julia Alvarez
2. Sweat by Zora Neale
3. The Handmaid’s Tale ( Not attached)