What distinguishes actual duty from prima facie duty?

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Whаt distinguishes аctuаl duty frоm prima facie duty?

Chооse оne of the following questions to write а bаsic compаrison/contrast essay. For this essay, you will need to provide specific evidence from both texts, as well as a clear, argumentative thesis. More importantly, however, your job is to show how the tension present within the comparison and contrast illuminates or illustrates the American literary tradition. Your essay should be 700-900 words. Option 1: The critic Leslie Fiedler argued in 1968 that American literature is defined by a man’s attempt to run away from civilization and into the wilderness. Two of the works we’ve read this semester, however, show an opposite narrative: the romantic man who loves and devotes himself to a lost woman. Comparing and contrasting F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Alice McDermott’s Charming Billy, explain the role this tragic lover plays within the American imagination and how he complicates the self-reliant American hero. Option 2: One of the basic tropes of American literature is the immigrant narrative, where the immigrant works hard to ensure his or her own economic and social future. Comparing and contrasting Alice McDermott’s Charming Billy and either Anzia Yezierska’s “The Lost Beautifulness” or Willa Cather’s “Neighbor Rosicky,” explain the obstacles these immigrant face and the ambivalence the literary tradition shows to the so-called “American Dream.” Option 3: By the end of Alice McDermott’s novel Charming Billy, the narrator speaks of her father as having a liar’s courage. Compare and contrast the concept of courage as a virtue as it plays out both in Alice McDermott’s Charming Billy and Stephen Crane’s Civil War novella The Red Badge of Courage. In your essay, consider how the use of irony changes the traditional understanding of a virtue as a perfection of a human faculty and explain how the American literary tradition asks us to understand courage.