Oedipus Rex Blindess

People can be ““blinded”” to the truth. The answer to their question or solution to their problem

may have been obvious. Yet, they could not "see" the answer. They were blinded to the truth.

Associations have been made between being blind and enlightened. A blind person is said to

have powers to see invisible things. They "see" into the future. The blind may not have physical

sight, but they have another kind of vision. In Sophocles' King Oedipus, Teiresias, the blind

prophet, presents the truth to King Oedipus and Jocasta. Oedipus has been blinded to the truth his

whole life. When he does find the truth, he loses his physical vision. Because of the truth,

Oedipus blinds himself. Jocasta was blind to the true identity of Oedipus. Even when she found

out the truth, she refused to accept it. In this case, those who are blind ultimately do have a

Kind Oedipus started life with a prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother. In

an attempt to avoid this fate, his parents, Laius and Jocasta, sent him into the mountains to die.

However, a shepherd saved Oedipus. This shepherd gave Oedipus to Polybus and Merope. When

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