3.+Individual+Analysis+1

 **  Micrographia    **

"For, as divers Watches may be made out of several materials, which may yet have all the same appearance, and move after       the same manner, that is, show the hour equally true, the one as the other, and out of the same kind of matter, like Watches,    may be wrought differing ways; and, as one and the same Watch may, by being diversly agitated, or mov'd, by this or that agent, or after this or that manner, produce a quite contrary effect: So may it be with these most curious Engines of Insect's bodies; the All-wise God of Nature, may have so ordered and disposed the little Automatons, that when nourished, acted, or enlivened by this cause, they produce one kind of effect, or animate shape, when by another they act quite another way, and      another Animal is produc'd. So may he so order several materials, as to make them, by several kinds of methods, produce        similar Automatons"                  

– Robert Hooke, Micrographia(1664)

In Robert Hooke's passage there are comparisons and parallels between watches and insects body’s’. These comparisons and parallels form an analogy in this passage that helps the author show his attitude towards what he is writing about and what he is trying to portray. Hooke talks about how watches are made out of several materials but still have the same appearance and all show the right time. He then says that insects are also made out of several materials and they share in on producing ability of acting on their own will. When Hooke says that both are made out of several materials it makes the reader see the comparison of inanimate objects to animate objects and shows the parallels they share. By doing this the author gets to show his purpose for writing by the use of an analogy. M Esfahani //Micrographia by Robert Hooke // 1) 05 Feb. 2009 .