The correct answer is "It conveys a sense of power and uncontrollability".
Explanation:
The play "Oedipus Rex" is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles at which the protagonist and his family have a tragic ending as they are exiled from everything they had. In the quote herein shown the word "surging" is used to describe a "tide of terrible disaster". The author uses the word "surging" to describe the tide as something powerful and uncontrollable. This is a metaphor to Oedipus tragedy, which he believed was his destiny to suffer.