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He was inclined to turn the blame against everyone else. These actions stemmed from ignorance and Tiresias, the blind prophet, noticed right away. It becomes clear that Oedipus “‘sees not into what misery [he] has fallen, / Nor where [he] lives nor with whom [he] mates,’” (Sophocles and Storr 426-428). This proves a problem, letting Oedipus trod between scenes without an impending sense of worry or healthy dose of caution. To make matters worse, Oedipus not only lacks knowledge of the underlying set, but is also oblivious to his own oblivion. Such a position opened the gates for many of his actions, resulting in neglect for the warnings he inherited. Oedipus was so far from the correct answer that he was the last to understand Jocasta’s. He could not comprehend her wishes for him to stop his search and brushed it off as “‘her pride of ancestry,’” (Sophocles and Storr 1074). Oedipus remained thick headed, and as the plot began to twist, it went unnoticed by him. He paid no attention to the reactions of those around him, nor the implications that they spoke of. His inability to heed the signs drove him to learn what he had never wished to know, and thus, steered him to his