Oedipus lightness vs. dark

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English

 

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Darcy A

 

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April 17, 2016

 

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so hungry to overthrow me he sets this wizard on me, this scheming quack, this fortune-teller peddling lies, eyes peeled for his ownprofit?seer blind in his craft! Tiresias responds by using the same metaphor: So, you mock my blindness? Let me tell you this. You with your precious eyes, you're blind to thecorruption of your life, to the house you live in, those you live with?who are your parents? Do you know? All unknowing you are the scourge of yourown flesh and blood, the dead below the earth and the living here above, and the double lash of your mother and your father's curse will whip you from thisland one day, their footfall treading you down in terror, darkness shrouding your eyes that now can see the light! Though at this point the reader cannot be sure which character is right, eventually Tiresias comes out the winner...
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This is revealed as Oedipus learns histragic fate, saying, O god?all come true, all burst to light! O light?now let me look my last on you! I stand revealed at last?cursed in my birth, cursed inmarriage, cursed in the lives I cut down with these hands! Here again, the metaphor of light, which represents truth and knowledge, is present...
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