The Blind

of Thebes. Throughout the play, Oedipus was blind to what he had done, blind to the truth of his identity, and even blinded of sight due to gouging out his own eyes. Oedipus was a character of great respect and honor in the town of Thebes.…

play is merrily unaware of the distance between the character’s self-identity or self-perception to the role the character has within his or her surroundings. In the play, Oedipus the King, Sophocles creates irony through King Oedipus. Oedipus is blind to the fact that he is the curse of Thebes despite much evidence to suggest that he has murdered his true father and committed incest with his birth mother. Oedipus also ignores Teiresias’s words that Oedipus is the curse. In addition, it has been…

“Oedipus the King” develops the theme of blindness throughout the entire play through three of its central characters: Oedipus, Tiresias, and Jocasta. Oedipus is blind not only to whom he has killed, but also to what his life has consisted of up until the point that he killed Laius; Tiresias the prophet is physically blind; Jocasta is blind in wanting nothing but the best for her child. Through these three main characters they are not only showing that blindness does not just occur in sight but…

to understand the author’s perspective. The author uses an interaction between a blind man and a stressed husband to get the point across you should never assume things and realize that blind people are just like any other person. The story is told through the authors thoughts and actions. He brings reality to it by living through an awkward situation where he must interact with a stranger who happens to be blind. This is very essential in the book because he uses his own narrative…

Brint/Malala Yousafzai, Two Diverse People Earth is a place of diversity, on it live billions of people that are all different from each other like Alan Brint, and Malala Yousafzai. The article “Blind swimmer works hard to race other high school swimmers in Illinois,” by Newsela staff talks about Alan Brint, a blind student who is a great swimmer. The article “Women Leaders: Malala Yousafzai” by Newsela staff , talks about Malala Yousafzai, a woman that fought for girl’s right to education in…

One of the most interesting things when studying a piece of literature is witnessing character development. This is achieved by something called an “epiphany”. An epiphany is defined as “a showing forth, as when an action reveals a character with particular clarity” (1471). After reading Flannery O’Connor’s “Revelation”, Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral”, and William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning”, you easily see how the protagonist in each of those stories experience their own epiphany. In “Revelation”,…

If we do not fear, what we can see in the inside and look at the body with a sense of its composition, its structure and complexity there is the option of celebrating our anatomies. It can stimulate curiosity and apply the biological mechanics of our insides in our surroundings. When we set aside our stigmata’s on sex and openly explore its nature, we can avoid misunderstandings and stimulate innocent curiosity towards the sexual element of our anatomies, and then we can discard the notion of a…

In Act 3 of Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, he illustrates the destructive nature of love by describing the events in which love makes a person blind. In Act 3 Tybalt kills Mercutio and in revenge, Romeo kills Tybalt. The prince then banishes Romeo from Verona but, Romeo won’t leave until he is able to say goodbye to his love, Juliet. Now, Juliet not only has to deal with the death of her cousin and the banishment of her secret husband, but also the arrangement of a marriage of which she…

short and simple, like “This blind man, an old friend of my wife 's, he was on his way to spend the night. His wife had died. So he was visiting the dead wife 's relatives in Connecticut” (Norton, 206).The sentences are well related to the message of narration, they are particularly judgemental. Thus as readers, we know only that which the narrator knows. The narrator in the story has prejudices to blind people, mostly stereotypical prejudices. His prejudices of blind people induce him to tell…

confidence”(Helen Keller). These words of wisdom are just one of the many reasons why Helen Keller is such an amazing hero. Even in the most challenging of times, Helen always stayed optimistic and confident. Despite the fact that Helen Keller was both blind and deaf, she has inspired thousands of people throughout the world to chase their dreams, even if they are struggling with life-threatening disabilities. In the year of 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama, Helen Keller came into the world as a…