Read the excerpt from The Iliad of Homer. Meanwhile the Achaianssloping their shields across their shoulders came close to the rampart.But his deadly fate held Hektor shackled, so that he stood fastIn front of Ilion and the Skaian gates.

Hektor’s “deadly fate” is described as holding him “shackled,” which suggests fate is binding and directing what he does. The excerpt presents fate as controlling, not kind, reversible, or insignificant. The correct choice is “Fate is controlling.”

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