Main themes touch upon one's place in the society and the arbitrariness of governments policies which set up the norm against one's morale.
As the play unravels, the cut is presented as a painful, immoral, controversial and ambiguous surgery, that cures a patient or victim from desire, or maybe even personality.
It is apparently destined to dissidents and/or sick people but its virtues also make it attractive as a mean of freedom and salvation.
In the first part, Paul is reluctant to administrate the cut to a willing patient, and in the course of his frustrations and failure to convince him otherwise, let explode his angst and impotency to commit suicide, confessing in particular his deficient relationship with his wife.
In the last part, Paul is in jail as a result of the cut being banished from a new Government, and is visited by his son, with whom he shares an equally emotionally disturbed and alienated conversation.