the speaker uses the metaphor, "and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it . ." to imply that he would like to get rid of his cares and problems when:
a. someone else comes to take him away from them
b. he no longer has any dreams or goals
c. his problems are not devastating but irritating and confusing
d. his problems were made by someone else

The best and most correct answer among the choices provided by your question is the third choice or letter C.

This is to imply that he would like to get rid of his cares and problems when  his problems are not devastating but irritating and confusing.


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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.