Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein provide templates designed to . Specifically, Graff and Birkenstein argue that the types of writing templates they offer . As the authors themselves put it, “.” Although some people believe , Graff and Birkenstein insist that . In sum, then, their view is that .

I [agree/disagree/have mixed feelings]. In my view, the types of templates that the authors recommend . For instance, . In addition, . Some might object, of course, on the grounds that . Yet I would argue that . Overall, then, I believe —an important point to make given .

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.