In Sophocles' King Oedipus, one of the main focus in the pay are relationship between sight, truth, ignorance and darkness. Teiresias, the blind prophet, presents the truth to King Oedipus and Locasta. Oedipus has been blinded to the truth his whole life. When he does find the truth, he loses his physical eyesight. Because of the truth, Oedipus blinds himself. Through out Oedipus the play , he physically blind or blind to see the truth. Locasta knew about the prophecy, but she thought Oedipus was dead. She had no idea that she had married her son .she was sightless to the true identity of Oedipus. Even when she found out the truth, she did not want to accepted which led her to darkness and tragedy fate by killing herself and leaving her children behind.
Even tough Oedipus is able to see physically but his pride and ignorance caused the bad time in thebe. Teiresias' blindness was of the physical nature. Teiresias played the role of the typical prophet in the Greek tragedy. He was physically blind, but he had eyesight into the future and to the truth . When he presented the truth to Oedipus, Oedipus mocks Teiresias by calling him blind . He told Teiresias that the only reason he was not blaming him for the whole situation was that Teiresias could not see. Oedipus used his ignorance to prophesize that Oedipus would leave Thebes blind, poor, and shamed. This statement irritated Oedipus even more. Oedipus began to turn away from the idea of a prophet and seeing into the future. He loses sight when the truth is revealed to him. He is always surrounded in darkness.
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