Why might the members of the continental congress have deleted the following passage from the declaration These facts have given the last stab to agonizing affection, and manly spirit bids to remove us to renounce forever these unfeeling brethren A. It provides too much insight into the reason the colonists want to declare independence. B. It does not connect to the main point of the document C. It assume that the British want the colonies to be part of Britain D. It uses overly emotional language to describe the reason for separation from Britain

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.