Many characters in stories can be "blinded” by the truth. The answer to their questions may have been clear to us, the audience, but not to the characters themselves. Most of the characters in the Greek play, “Oedipus the King” were "blind", such as Jocasta, Teiresias, and Oedipus. It is often said that even when exposed to the truth, certain people still cannot accept what is presented to them, disregarding of the obviousness of the facts. Oedipus is most definitely a prime example of this. His "blindness” played throughout the whole play and he was "blind" in more than one way. He was "blind" to the truth about his own life. Oedipus had no idea that his real parents were Laius (father) and Jocasta (mother). Oedipus, who has the physical
