The following question refers to “rip van winkle.” what is ironic about rip saying to his dog, “while i live thou shalt never want a friend to stand by thee! ”
a) rip will fall asleep for 20 years and leave the dog alone
b) rips dog will die that night
c) rip will forget his own dog
d) rip will get a new dog

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.