Writing about theme in fiction and citing evidence Restate.
“Citing textual evidence requires students to look back into the text for evidence to
support an idea, answer a question or make a claim. • Citing evidence requires students to
think more deeply about the text, analyze the author, source etc. Give credit to the original
author or text the information was taken from originally to avoid plagiarism."

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.