What is the effect on the reader of the repeated line "Down, down, down under
the sea"?
It highlights the idea that the reader
should care for the ocean.
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It encourages the reader to picture the
action happening deep in the ocean.
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It tells the reader information about
different parts of the ocean.
It adds detail to help the reader imagine
each of the animals in the ocean.

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.