Part A What role do you think the witches play in advancing the theme of fate versus free will? Write a strong thesis statement and support it with
examples from the text.

answer

thesis statement: macbeth exercises his free will to attain the goal suggested by the witches prophecy.
macbeth has ambiguous thoughts about the witches prophecy. he acknowledges the prophecy may have some truth since he because thane of cawdor:
this supernatural soliciting
cannot be ill; cannot be good:— if ill,
why hath it given me earnest is success,
commencing in a truth? i am thane of cawdor:
at the same time the prophecy forces macbeth to contemplate the act of murdering the kind:
if good, why do i yield to that suggestion
whose horrid image doth unfix my hair,
and make my seared heart knock at my ribs,
against the use of nature? present fears
are less than horrible imaginings:
my thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
shakes so my single state of man, that function
is smother’d in surmise; and nothing is
but what is not
while macbeth struggles to understand the prophecy, his ambition moves him down the path toward kingship. macbeth ultimately makes the choice to murder duncan to fulfill the prophecy.

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Asap plz which sentence from this excerpt of jefferson davis’s inaugural address indicates that secession was the confederacy’s way of reclaiming its legal powers? an agricultural people, whose chief interest is the export of a commodity required in every manufacturing country, our true policy is peace, and the freest trade which our necessities will permit . . there can be but little rivalry between ours and any manufacturing or navigating community, such as the northeastern states of the american union. it must follow, therefore, that a mutual interest would invite good will and kind offices. if, however, passion or the lust of dominion should cloud the judgment or inflame the ambition of those states, we must prepare to meet the emergency and to maintain, by the final arbitrament of the sword, the position which we have assumed among the nations of the earth. we have entered upon the career of independence, and it must be inflexibly pursued. through many years of controversy with our late associates, the northern states, we have vainly endeavored to secure tranquillity, and to obtain respect for the rights to which we were entitled. as a necessity, not a choice, we have resorted to the remedy of separation; and henceforth our energies must be directed to the conduct of our own affairs, and the perpetuity of the confederacy which we have formed. if a just perception of mutual interest shall permit us peaceably to pursue our separate political career, my most earnest desire will have been fulfilled. but, if this be denied to us, and the integrity of our territory and jurisdiction be assailed, it will but remain for us, with firm resolve, to appeal to arms and invoke the blessings of providence on a just cause . .