What is the purpose of each statement from George Washington's Farewell Address? Match the correct purpose to each
text statement
to predict that the US is uniquely
situated to resist foreign invasions
to advise that the US favor only
those foreign powers that show
themselves friendly toward our
best interests
to warn that the US must
guard itself against all foreign
interference
to remind that the best US citizen
will reject popular foreign influences
regardless of personal cost
to suggest that the U. S. should
develop commercial ties to foreign
powers rather than political ties

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.