Blindness And Visons In Oedipus The King

Blindness and having visons play a key role in Oedipus the King. For instance, Tiresias is a blind prophet who gives knowledge to his people and to Oedipus. Tiresias tell Oedipus this terrible fate and warns him. This shows that people can still know things without being able to see them. When Oedipus was a baby an oracle came to his parents and told them that he would have a terrible fate-the fate was that he was going to sleep with his mother and kill his father. At hearing this, his parents did not want him anymore. They gave Oedipus to the messenger and told him to pierce the baby through the ankle and leave him on the mountain side. The messenger could not do it so he gave the baby to a shepherd, who gave him to the King and Queen of Corinth. The short story Oedipus the King reveals that your fate is destined and you cannot hide from it. Regardless of whether you have vison or are blind your fate remain the same. …show more content…
This drunk man told Oedipus that the King and Queen was not his real parents. This makes his furious and he leaves the city. He asks the Gods and they told him his oracle. Once he left from Corinth he ran into the King of Thebes and his servants and killed them all. In the passage it stated, “Oh, woman, here is the truth. As I approached the place where three joined, a herald, a colt-drawn wagon, and a man like the one you describe, my head on. The man out front and the old man himself began to crowd me off the road. The driver, who’s forcing me aside, I smash in anger. The old man watches me, he measures my approach, then leans out lunging with his two-spiked goad dead at my skill. He’s more than repaid: I hit him so fast with the staff this hand holds, he’s knocked back rolling off the cart. Where he lies, face up. Then I kill them all” (Sophocles 506). This shows how Oedipus was not thinking clear because he was angry. Oedipus had an ignorant mindset which was shown in his