Blindness In Oedipus The King Essay

Too often in the search for the truth those who seek it are blinded by the delusion that they have found it. It is with this thought that humans as a species struggle to learn because if one believes that they have discovered the truth what is the point of learning? If one already knows the answer what is the purpose of studying? If the truth has been uncovered what is the rationale of exploration? This thought yields an environment unwilling to accept change, and those who repudiate change are those who will fail to evolve. This defensiveness and neglect of the drive for knowledge is the most prevalent and persisting wool over that coats the eyes of the people in this world. The only hope for the improvement and encouragement of humans’ ever-present …show more content…
The idea that the key to mental sight is not physical sight, but instead the ability and willingness to listen to the truth. This is exemplified by several characters refusal and rejection of the truth though they maintain physical sight they fail to listen, the blind seer Tiresias who lacks physical sight but maintains the strongest view of the truth, and Oedipus’ removal of his eyes that failed to see the verity that lay in front of him undetected for twenty years. There is an interesting irony to the idea that those who see the most physically, realize the least mentally. Truth is forgotten when curiosity is forgotten and when all the answers seemed to have been found, but answers are too often wrong and too often people are blinded by the opposite belief. Those who believe too firmly in the truth they have found are deaf to the world and blind from the