Read the excerpt from act 3, scene 5 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Hecate is annoyed at the witches for not including her when they prophesied to Macbeth that he would become king. The excerpt mentions the Acheron, a river in Greece that is featured prominently in Greek mythology as the entrance to the underworld.[Hecate.] And I, the mistress of your charms,The close contriver of all harms,Was never call’d to bear my part,Or show the glory of our art?And, which is worse, all you have doneHath been but for a wayward son,Spiteful and wrathful; who, as others do,Loves for his own ends, not for you.But make amends now: get you gone,And at the pit of AcheronMeet me i' the morning: thither heWill come to know his destiny:Your vessels and your spells provide,Your charms and every thing beside.
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by implying that Macbeth will gain connections to the underworldB
by establishing that Macbeth will assume control of more territoryC
by suggesting that Macbeth is closer to death than he realizesD
by explaining how Macbeth rose to his position of prominence