First Read: Concept Vocabulary Identify the choice that best answers the question.
Which of the following descriptions best illustrates the meaning of serpentine?
Which of the following descriptions best illustrates the meaning of serpentine
A. The fox cleverly waited until the farmer had gone to bed.

B. We cleaned the paintbrushes before putting them away.

C. The highway climbed in hairpin curves up the mountain.
O D. She noticed that the walls of the cave felt clammy

All of them they’re all right

The main themes of the play are: fate and free will with the inevitability of oracular predictions is a theme that often occurs in greek tragedies the conflict between the individual and the state similar to that in sophocles’ “antigone” and   people’s willingness to ignore painful truths both oedipus and jocasta clutch at unlikely details in order to avoiding facing up to the inceasingly apparent truth and sight and blindness the irony that the blind seer tiresius can actually “see” more clearly than the supposedly clear-eyed oedipus, who is in reality blind to the truth about his origins and his inadvertent crimes.