Thursday, May 27, 2010

Assignment # 10 - Oedipus

In the drama King Oedipus some of the key relationships are between sight, truth, ignorance and darkness.Teiresias whom is a blind prophet, presents the truth to King Oedipus and Jocasta.Oedipus was a man that blinded himself from the truth of reality. When Oedipus found out the truth he took his mother/wife broaches and damaged his eyes and then he became blind. So throughout the play Oedipus was blind both mentally and psyically. Jocasta knew about the prochey and she did not take much mind to it. She had thought Oedipus was dead because of when they got rid of him when he was a young child. She did not realize that she had married her own son and had sexual contact with him. A sin in the eyes of god as incest. Even when she found out the truth, she did not want to accept the fact of her being with her son, which led her to dark and tragedic fate by killing herself and leaving her children behind.Oedipus pride was a downfall for him, it lead to all his ignorant actions.
Teiresias' blindness was of the physical problem. He was physically blind, but he had eyesight into the future and to the truth which lead to confusing and suffering.Oedipus made fun of Teiresias by calling him blind. But even though Teiresias is blind he can see the truth; Oedipus has his sight but cannot.

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