What is most likely the reason that the author chooses to make the sniper's victim his brother? A. To make the reader hate the sniper.
B. To illustrate the senseless tragedy of the civil war in Ireland.
O C. To show the quality of the sniper's marksmanship.
- D. To give the reader insight about the sniper's family.

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.