A critical lens essay is a unique form of comparative analysis that explores the “target” text through the perspective of the “lens” text, creating a dialogue between the two works and offering new insights into the target text or challenging the arguments of the lens text.
Examining how the ideas of the lens text apply to, extend, or reevaluate the target text fosters deeper critical thinking and understanding. It serves as an essential tool for developing original perspectives.
For this essay, we were asked to closely read Arthur Frank’s The Wounded Storyteller and Paul Farmer’s “Suffering and Structural Violence” and choose one as our “lens” text. For our target text, we were asked to choose any other source of our liking to analyze through the argument put forth in the lens text.
“The Chaos of BoJack Horseman”
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