"On the spirit of obligations" and "friendship" - how each text views friendship pointing out to the meeting points.
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We have before us two texts; one, "on the spirit of obligations" the other, "friendship". Both very different in terms of structure, style and images, yet both are closely linked thematically. The notions expressed in the text are ideas of friendship (as implied by the title of one of the texts) and human relations. It is interesting to explore how each text views friendship pointing out to the meeting points. The texts are of extremely different style and structure simply because they each serve a very different purpose. The first is an essay written by William Hazlitt taken from "on the spirit of obligations", the second is a song- "friendship" by Cole Porter. Only from this we can asses that the essay is written as continues prose and is meant to publicize some opinion. An essay usually exists to be informative, present a view and thus will be serious, explanatory...


