The main idea of the passage above from Cotton Mather's "The Wonders of the Invisible World" is to justify the outcome of the trials. Thank you for posting your question. I hope this answer helped you. Let me know if you need more help.
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Explanation:
"The Monkey's Paw" is W. W. Jacobs' classic tale of the dangers of messing with fate. As Sergeant-Major Morris says, "Fate ruled people's lives," and those who interfered with fate suffered the consequences. Jacobs links the themes of the exotic and the supernatural in the symbol of the monkey's paw.
Both life choices <u>were actually very similar.</u>
Explanation:
As both the roads are worn out really about the same it suggests that almost same number of people have chosen both the roads, hence<u> there seems to be no essential difference between the two as both are taken by similar number of people.</u>
In terms of the metaphorical meaning the choices seem to be very similar and yet it seems difficult to choose between them because of man's inability to choose between two paths and then not wondering what the other had in store.