Agatha feels she has to run away to avoid marriage because she doesn't have a choice. She is not allowed to choose who she marries. This shows that in Ancient Greek culture marriages were arranged for the women. They were not given a choice to marry for love. Also, this shows that marriage is something that is expected once a person reaches a certain age.
The Modest Proposal addresses the problem of the society regarding the increasing population of poor children. The modest proposal is a proposed solution on how to deal with these children, the idea is to fatten up the children so they could be of use the the manpower of the society. The ambiguous part was that the role of the parents and the family of these children.
That type of figurative language is a metaphor.
Answer:
Feldman reaches the conclusion that most people are honest without receiving an incentive by
studying a counterclaim about morality and arriving at a broad generalization.
Explanation:
A researcher can reach a conclusion that most people are honest after studying a counterclaim about morality. He can then arrive at a broad generalization.
A counterclaim is the opposite of an argument, or simply, the opposing argument. A counterclaim research is one undertaken to establish that the opposite of a research situation prevails. It is a claim made against a situation or an established position in order to rebut the claimed position.
In this instance, Glaucon had taken a position that no man could resist the temptation of evil if he knew his acts could not be witnessed or dictated. For Feldman to contradict this claim, with a conclusion that 87% of the time, a man could resist the temptation of evil even if he knew his acts could not be witnessed or dictated because he had become invisible, it means that he had researched the counterclaim.
