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Illness has frequently been used as metaphor. How does Sontag use metaphors in the book? Why does she believe that illness is not a metaphor? Why does she think that it was wrong to use illness as a metaphor?

Essay Topic 2

Genre is a means of classifying literature. What is the genre of the novel? Why is it not a treatise?

Essay Topic 3

Susan Sontag is the author of Illness as Metaphor. Why did Sontag write Illness as Metaphor?

Essay Topic 4

Metaphors used to describe cancer and tuberculosis changed over time. How did the metaphors used to describe cancer and tuberculosis change over time? What does etymology reveal about those changes?

Essay Topic 5

There was a divergence in the metaphorical descriptions of TB and cancer. How did the metaphorical descriptions of TB and cancer diverge? How and why did technology create the divergence?

Essay Topic 6

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