Living blind of the truth can have a significant damage of people life that make totally change their life, even that the truth is right there in front of their eyes, they still can not see it. Traditionally blind people are known for see thing the people with sight can’t even see, they have a kind of vision that show the future. In Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, Teiresias, the blind prophet, show the truth to King Oedipus and Jocasta that his is the killer of his father and who is married to his mother. Oedipus has been blinded to the truth his whole life. From the begging of the story, Oedipus was blind of the truth he whole life, very confidence on his own reality, and thinking that he know who he is, he was trying to help the citizens o Thebes
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Blinded to the truth, Oedipus was trying everything to help the people from the plague, looking for solution he send Creon is brother in law to the Delphic oracle to find out how to stop the plague. When Creon came back and told Oedipus the Massinger from that oracle that the murderer of Laius, who ruled Thebes before Oedipus is in Thebes, and that he must be punish and kill, in order for the plague to end. Oedipus get angry telling Creon why they have ignored the king murder and haven’t looking for him, he said that he will do everything to find the murder and make him pay for killing the …show more content…
And every time that he was going deeper with the investigation, at the same time he was self-discovery the real truth. And at this point, after Teresias told him that he was the murder of the king, he was afraid and didn’t want to believe it and thinking that Teresias was crazy and making false judgment about him, claiming that he is false prophet. However, Teresias defense himself and told him where he came from and about his parents, also before leaving the stage, Teresias said that the murderer of Laius will turn out to be both father and brother to his own children, and the son of his own wife. And at this point Oedipus was start to believe what Teresias told him because he didn’t talk nobody where he came from and that make him think that he may be the murder, but he still ignore it and looking for information to say that Teresias was
Blinded to the truth, Oedipus was trying everything to help the people from the plague, looking for solution he send Creon is brother in law to the Delphic oracle to find out how to stop the plague. When Creon came back and told Oedipus the Massinger from that oracle that the murderer of Laius, who ruled Thebes before Oedipus is in Thebes, and that he must be punish and kill, in order for the plague to end. Oedipus get angry telling Creon why they have ignored the king murder and haven’t looking for him, he said that he will do everything to find the murder and make him pay for killing the …show more content…
And every time that he was going deeper with the investigation, at the same time he was self-discovery the real truth. And at this point, after Teresias told him that he was the murder of the king, he was afraid and didn’t want to believe it and thinking that Teresias was crazy and making false judgment about him, claiming that he is false prophet. However, Teresias defense himself and told him where he came from and about his parents, also before leaving the stage, Teresias said that the murderer of Laius will turn out to be both father and brother to his own children, and the son of his own wife. And at this point Oedipus was start to believe what Teresias told him because he didn’t talk nobody where he came from and that make him think that he may be the murder, but he still ignore it and looking for information to say that Teresias was