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RESTATING A THESIS

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PURPOSE

  • Not to simply repeat
  • Add power because you have made your point
  • Finish strongly and leave Reader thinking

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SAMPLE THESIS AND RESTATEMENT

  • Thesis Statement:
    • In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the lead character determines his own outcome with Free Will not Fate
  • Restatement:
    • Clearly, Macbeth chooses Evil over Good so many times that he causes his own moral and physical destruction.

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ANOTHER

  • Thesis Statement:
    • In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Sleep is described as torture and Death is described as Peace.
  • Restatement:
    • In Macbeth, the powers of darkness torment those who try to sleep while those who die even gruesome, violent deaths experience true and lasting peace.

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