You have just read Watership Down and "How the Zebra Got His Stripes," two passages that try to teach lessons through their characters. Write an essay in
which you argue whether Frith or Zebra taught a lesson more successfully. In your
response, be sure to include details about the characters' behaviors, the nature of
their conflicts, and how their conflicts are resolved.
Write a well-organized, text-dependent response. Be sure to save time to edit and
review your work for complete sentences, spelling, punctuation, and appropriate
language.

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.