A) Aviod Responsibility and B.) Bargain with God -------- Now, instead of pleading for more time before his demise, he wishes for a time limit on
his suffering. He pleads to God requesting that, after spending a thousand or even a hundred
thousand years in hell, he might be saved from his misery.
B, D, and E are the correct answers. Literary themes are usually profound statements that teach a "lesson". A and C are just random sentences that don't have meaning.
They are describing colonel pickering from pygmalion, a play by george bernard shaw.