Tiresias

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…

incorporated some of the people from his home town such as the , . He can connect to these people and tell their story while they are in his version of “hell”. Some of the stories that the readers and Dante learn about are the Lovers, Tiresias, and the…

A man’s life is a journey that has been pre-destined by the gods. There is always a human will towards a desire, but in the end destiny plays its own course, and makes sure that the will leads the way to the fate. No matter how much the man wants to assert his own will, in the end a man is powerless against his fate. As per the ancient Greek theatre, Sophocles play’s normally have emphasis on individual characters, the role of chorus has always been reduced, there are complex characters who are…

One particular character that makes this motif of seeing very clear is Tiresias. Tiresias is a blind prophet of Apollo in Thebes, and considering that he is blind, it is ironic how he can clearly see Oedipus’s horrific past, present, and future. Oedipus has perfect sight, but can 't see the fate that the gods put on his life which…

In its most basic form, sight can be defined as the “perception of objects by use of the eyes.” When taken literally, sight is just that—physically seeing something with your eyes. While sight can indeed be taken literally, it can also encompass much more than simply “seeing” something. This distinction between the literal definition of sight and a deeper sense of sight can be found in the comparison between Sophocles’s Greek tragedy, Oedipus the King, and Sir Author Conan Doyle’s short story,…

One example is when Creon comes back with Tiresias and Oedipus pushes Tiresias to tell him the truth. Tiresias at first refuses to help to protect him from the truth, but Oedipus finally makes him and his first statement is, “How terrible to know when it does not help the knower,” (Sophocles 136-138). After that Tiresias tells him the truth and all Oedipus does is call him a liar. Throughout his life he is always searching for the…

short temper, but different in how their stories plays out and their choices. They are similar by them both having a temper when not hearing what they want to hear. For instance, when Oedipus was trying figure out who killed Laius, Oedipus said to Tiresias, “What a wicked old man you are” (Sophocles 18). Oedipus lost it on Teiresias because Teiresias was giving Oedipus indirect answers not saying what Oedipus wanted to hear. Much like Oedipus, Creon has a temper. When the Sentry came to tell…

someone thinks they know what is right but are actually ignorant to the truth, that will most likely cause their downfall. Sophocles foreshadows Oedipus’ future using the motif of sight and blindness through prophecies and through the character Tiresias to show his point. The prophecies that he would kill his father and sleep with his mother all were prophesied even before this story begins. Even though he thought he had escaped those prophecies, he actually ran to them, which shows…

Is the play Oedipus about blindness or light? The play Oedipus Rex concerns itself with both blindness and light, it compares their literal and allegorical interpretations to discuss the main theme of the pursuit of knowledge. It is driven by the titular character Oedipus’ thirst for knowledge that ultimately ends up blinding him. In this essay I will bring into attention different interpretations of blindness and light used in the play and how one must be given up for the other to prevail.…

Evidences can be found in the following scenes. The first warning is from Tiresias, a prophet who is physically blind but wiser enough to knowledge the truth of Oedipus’ history and his future miserable life. Tiresias warns Oedipus that if he insist on finding out the truth, the consequents of his actions will devastate him and others lives. However, Oedipus does not accept Tiresias’ advice, instead, his accuses Tiresias and Kreon, his brother in law who suggests him…