Oedipus The King - Blindness

Oedipus the King - Blindness Blindness plays a two-fold part in Sophocles tragedy "Oedipus the King." First, Sophocles presents blindness as a physical hinderance affecting the auger Teiresias, and later Oedipus; but later, blindness comes to specify an inability to see the evil in ones actions and the consequences that ensue. The irony in this lies in the fact that Oedipus, while apt with sight, is blind to himself, in contrast to Teiresias, blind physically, but open to see the evil to which Oedipus has fallen prey to. Tragically, as Oedipus gains the intragroup gift of sight, he discards his outward gift of sight.

Sight, therefore, seems to be manage good and evil, a person may only call for one. Teiresias, prophet of Phoebus, was stricken with blindness to the physical world, but, as a result, gained the gift of sight into the spiritual world. This great gift allowed him to capture a superior prophet, praised by the people as " divinity like" and as a person &qu...If you want to lounge about a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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