Read these lines: when fortune would elect/ to trick a man, she plots his overthrow/ by such a means as he would least which theme from the story is best represented in these lines?
b) people don expect good things to happen to them
c) people have little control over their own lives
d) fortune plays fair to those she meets, even if they are cunning

C) people have little control over their own lives.

Explanation: In the given lines we can see that the theme of the story that is best represented is that people have little control over their own lives, because the lines imply that doesn't matter what a person does or says, if the fortune want to trick a man, she will do it in ways that the man doesn't expect at all, so this gives the idea of people having little or no control over their lives.

i think the literacy device is "it's frozen head"