Persuasive Essay for Senior EnglishSelect one of the following prompts to serve as the basis for a persuasive essay.PROMPTS:
1. Select a “secondary” character (Banquo, Macduff, Malcolm) and analyze the way in which heor she serves as a foil to a central character and thus help to expand your understanding bycontrast. (A foil is a character who enhances another through contrast). You could alsotheoretically use Lady Macbeth as a secondary character to Macbeth.
2. Does power corrupt automatically? Apply this famous expression to the events and charactersin Macbeth. You can focus on a single character or several. You may take the position that italways corrupts, never corrupts, or sometimes corrupts, but be sure to provide textual support.
3. Is Macbeth a tragedy of fate or of character? In determining your position on this, considerwhether the witches play a central or collateral role in shifting the ambitions and actions of theplay’s characters.Hints and tips:Take a firm stance on the prompt and write a 5-paragraph, double-spaced essaysupporting your position.Make sure that you have a strong thesis statement at the end of your introduction and cleartopic sentences in each body paragraph that provide arguments in support of your thesis.Be sure to provide textual support to establish each of your claims.★Your current draft must contain compelling arguments that maintain a clear focus.★Each body paragraph must contain a topic sentence that presents a single argument insupport of your thesis.★ Make sure that there is ample textual support in each body paragraph. Textualsupport refers to actual quotations that are properly cited.★Every claim you make should be accompanied by textual support.★Be sure to vary your sentence structure and use transitional language between sentencesand between body paragraphs.★Word choice and sentence structure are essential to a persuasive essay.★Use words that are powerful and precise.★Your essay MUST be in MLA format
