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King Oedipus By Sophocles

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August 23, 2012

 

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Excessive pride fuels his inability to believe the prophecy of Teiresias stating Oedipus is the killer, and that he has married his mother. "Until I came ? I, ignorant Oedipus, came ? and stopped the riddler's mouth, guessing the truth by mother-wit, not bird-love." Because he continually boasts about how he has saved Thebes from the Sphinx, he believes that no one could know more than he, especially if he is the one to be accused of a crime he "knows" he didn't commit...
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In response Teiresias argues, "You are please to mock my blindness. Have you eyes, and do not see your own damnation? Eyes and cannot see what company you keep." This is a pivotal component to the irony behind the idea of blindness throughout the play. Although Teiresias is physically blind, he is able to accept and "see" the truth, while Oedipus physically being able to see is left in the dark rejecting truth...
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