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That the sight is stabbed out of them is what happens to Theban King Oedipus' eyes. The blinding is deliberate and self afflicted. It's done with brooches from the robe of Theban Queen Jocasta, who's Oedipus' wife and mother. It's finding out that he's the killer of his own father and the husband of his own mother, and that Jocasta commits suicide, that leads Oedipus to this violent act.

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