Write a compare-and-contrast essay comparing Ovid’s myth “Pyramus and Thisbe” with the play “Pyramus and Thisbe” enacted in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V, Scene 1. Examine and discuss the similarities and differences between the two versions. Your goal is to explain how Shakespeare transformed the original source. Remember: • Your essay needs to be at least 4 paragraphs long. Remember that a paragraph must have at least 4 sentences, each.
• Include an introduction with a thesis statement, a body with supporting evidence, and a conclusion.
• Use textual evidence from both texts to support your points.
• Use transitions to link sections, paragraphs, sentences, ideas, and details.
• Use formal language and an objective tone.
• Choose either block structure or point-by-point structure and use it consistently.
• Proofread your essay for standard grammar, usage, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.

In this excerpt from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift, which important issue does the writer deal with using a satirical tone? some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. but i am not in the least pain upon that matter, because it is very well known, that they are every day dying, and rotting, by cold and famine, and filth, and vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected. and as to the young labourers, they are now in almost as hopeful a condition. they cannot get work, and consequently pine away from want of nourishment, to a degree, that if at any time they are accidentally hired to common labour, they have not strength to perform it, and thus the country and themselves are happily delivered from the evils to come. a. old, sickly people cannot be hired as laborers because they don't have the physical stamina required for the job. b. old, sickly people and young laborers are useless to the nation because they cannot be productive citizens. c. the economy of the nation is burdened by the poor, the old, and the sickly who survive on charity and handouts. d. the living conditions of the poor and their lack of employment opportunities are serious concerns for the nation. reset next