In the context of the text, can you change your identity? Is the social class that Rosaura and her mother belong to a concrete part of their identities? Is it something that they could
easily change, or should wish to change? Cite evidence from this text, your own experience,
and other literature, art, or history in your answer.

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.