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• Answered a Question in Natural Right and History

  Leo Strauss’s collection of lectures collected in the book Natural Right And History is the philosopher’s argument in favor of...

• Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby

  Psychoanalysis is a wide-ranging field, covering a variety of approaches to treating different forms of mental illness. The study...

• Answered a Question in Literature

  A critical analysis goes beyond summarizing the work and discusses themes, imagery, structure, technique, and other literary and...

• Answered a Question in Literature

  “Similarities between racism and American literature” sounds like a broad topic, as those are both broad terms. Try narrowing those...

• Answered a Question in Gulliver's Travels

  “Human nature” is defined subjectively. Whether you agree or disagree with what Swift says about human nature, your argument is going...

• Answered a Question in The Divine Comedy

  Dante’s The Divine Comedy has a wide range of characters with many different backgrounds and personalities. In order to...

• Answered a Question in Candide

  The strongest example of freedom as a concept in Candide is the title character’s own freedom after he is thrown out of the...

• Answered a Question in Literature

  The major theme or themes of a book are the recurring ideas that point to important topics outside of the story. For example, in...

• Answered a Question in Edgar Allan Poe

  The narrator of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” describes the bird at length in stanzas seven and eight. He describes the raven as...

• Answered a Question in The Metamorphosis

  Mr. and Mrs. Samsa’s view of their children has to be analyzed before and after Gregor’s transformation, especially in Gregor’s case....