Which two terms does Hirohito use to best advance his point that the U. S. and Great Britain have treated his country poorly? might retrieve the situation in peace” (paragraph 21)

take up arms” (paragraph 19)

“four years have passed” (paragraph 19)

“direct severance of economic relations” (paragraph 21)

“obstructed by every means” (paragraph 21)

“failing to comprehend” (paragraph 19)

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.