When writing a compare-and-contrast essay about a common theme, the writer must

A compare-and-contrast essay about a common theme should examine how each work develops that theme. This lets the writer show both similarities and differences in the works’ ideas and techniques. Choice B, “compare and contrast how the themes are developed,” describes that task; avoiding discussion of both works, as C suggests, would undermine the comparison.

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