Tiresias In Oedipus The King

Tiresias a blind prophet conferred with the power of having knowledge about the foresightedness, who with this capacity had privilege to tell people about their past events, future calamities and fatal occurrences and even unknown on goings of present. In the dark and gloomy days Thebes was going through the most helpless condition by which no single being was able to redemption of people from disastrous epidemic in the aspect of Black Death which was grave depriving in human history, resulted the death of million people. This plague created upheavals in religion, social and economical spheres of Thebans. In search of retrieval from this plague, the hero of the play Oedipus endeavored by tooth and nail. Only in this case he somewhat appeared as a worried leader for his nation he sent Creon to Delphi, where god Apollo discloses the hidden secrets. So that they …show more content…
Oedipus said the murderer will be just banished from the city if he exposes himself. These all announcements were ineffectual and somewhat paralyzed the hopes of Oedipus. In this feeble situation Tiresias was called by the leader of Chorus. Oedipus was awared of the distinguished characteristics of Tiresias that he makes prophecies and born to know and tell the truth. In lines (83 to 85) [1] Oedipus praises Tiresias by his soul because the blind prophet remains the only gleam in the dusky days. Oedipus in needy time commends the blindness of Tiresias in the words: “Although you are blind but you have strength to know the secrets of past and future; the secrets of heaven and hell.” “Oedipus calls Tiresias the Lord who was the only reason to get rid of plague. Oedipus insisted Tiresias to reveal the secret that who is murderer as Apollo sent the solution in the exile of