King Oedipus himself is responsible for his own blindness. He's responsible for his physical blindness. He's the one who plunges his wife and mother's brooches into both eyes.
Oedipus also is responsible for his previous, symbolicblindness. He hears a rumor that he isn't the biological son of Corinthian King Polybus and Queen Merope. He doesn't like their lack of a direct answer to this piece of unsettling gossip.
So Oedipus goes off to consult with the Delphic Oracle. He likes even less what he learns there. He's told of his fate to kill his father and marry his mother.
Oedipus doesn't think to check out the rumor that the Corinthian monarchs aren't his real parents. Instead, he goes tearing off to Thebes, which happens to be his real hometown. On the way, he kills a stranger who's old enough to be his father and whom he resembles. It turns out to be his father, Theban King Laius.
Then Oedipus marries a woman who's old enough to be his mother and with whom he may or may not share similar features or personality quirks. She turns out to be his mother, Theban Queen Jocasta. The possibilities are all there for seeing with the eyes and processing with the mind. But Oedipus is figuratively blind to all.
Physical and symbol blindness are the kinds of blindness in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, physical blindness is evidenced in the actual blindness of Teiresisas the blind prophet. Symbolic blindness is found in the cluelessness of Theban King Oedipus. Oedipus suffers from a mistaken self-image that causes him not to recognize the truths that are staring him in the face.
He does not know that the person he killed on the road from Corinth was Laius.
Oedipus himself as well as those who know of his true identity and keep silent are responsible for Oedipus' tragedy in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban King Oedipus is responsible for his downfall because of his murderous acts, passionate outbursts and secretive ways. But he operates at a disadvantage because of his mistaken self-image. Those who have but do not share information as to his true self-identity therefore share in the blame.
Yes, Oedipus can be regarded as responsible for the death and suffering in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban King Oedipus is responsible for the death of King Laius and four of Laius' five member escort party. He most likely can enter a successful plea of self-defense since he is outnumbered. In fact, Laius and his charioteer behave badly, hurtfully and offensively. Oedipus subsequently becomes responsible for the suffering of his people because of the pestilence brought on by his neglect of mandatory cleansing rituals in the aftermath of his crimes.
It is Apollo who is responsible for Oedipus murdering his father and marrying his mother according to Oedipus in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban King Oedipus admits that he is killer ignorant of his victim's true identity. He concedes that he is an immoralist likewise ignorant of his wife's true identity. He does not intend his crime and immorality. Oedipus insists that his misdeeds result from divine meddling in human lives.
Physical and symbol blindness are the kinds of blindness in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, physical blindness is evidenced in the actual blindness of Teiresisas the blind prophet. Symbolic blindness is found in the cluelessness of Theban King Oedipus. Oedipus suffers from a mistaken self-image that causes him not to recognize the truths that are staring him in the face.
Sight and Blindness
He does not know that the person he killed on the road from Corinth was Laius.
Oedipus himself as well as those who know of his true identity and keep silent are responsible for Oedipus' tragedy in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban King Oedipus is responsible for his downfall because of his murderous acts, passionate outbursts and secretive ways. But he operates at a disadvantage because of his mistaken self-image. Those who have but do not share information as to his true self-identity therefore share in the blame.
Yes, Oedipus can be regarded as responsible for the death and suffering in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban King Oedipus is responsible for the death of King Laius and four of Laius' five member escort party. He most likely can enter a successful plea of self-defense since he is outnumbered. In fact, Laius and his charioteer behave badly, hurtfully and offensively. Oedipus subsequently becomes responsible for the suffering of his people because of the pestilence brought on by his neglect of mandatory cleansing rituals in the aftermath of his crimes.
It is Apollo who is responsible for Oedipus murdering his father and marrying his mother according to Oedipus in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban King Oedipus admits that he is killer ignorant of his victim's true identity. He concedes that he is an immoralist likewise ignorant of his wife's true identity. He does not intend his crime and immorality. Oedipus insists that his misdeeds result from divine meddling in human lives.
It is not at all fully that Oedipus accepts responsibility for what he does in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Oedipus ends up having to step down as king of Thebes. He is the killer of his father and sovereign as well as the husband of his own mother. He maintains that Apollo the god of prophecy is responsible for Oedipus' criminal acts and immoral behavior. He says that he is responsible only for blinding himself.
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That he is blind but sees the truth is the reason why Teiresias' blindness is relevant to Oedipus in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Teiresias the blind prophet is the royal advisor to every Theban king since the city's founding by King Cadmus. He knows the entire past, present and future of Thebes through his innate wisdom and through skilled reading of ritual sacrifices. He manages to be so insightful despite being blind whereas the sighted Theban King Oedipus cannot see the murder and incest that are staring him right in the face.
That it is Apollo who ruins his life but that it is he himself who ruins his sight is the way in which Oedipus explains his ordeal and present circumstances in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Oedipus loses his friends, home, jobs and reputation for criminal acts and immoral behavior. He objects to the preceding happening to him since he indeed kills his father and marries his mother, but in ignorance of his or their true identities. Oedipus observes that his criminal acts and immoral behavior result from Apollo's relentless carrying out of the prophesied fate of the Furies. At the same time, he states that his blindness is the sole act that throws him into misery for which he alone is responsible.
Jocasta, Laius, Merope, and Polybusas well as the Theban and Corinthian shepherds and Oedipus himself are responsible for what happens to Oedipus in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban monarchs Laius and Jocasta are responsible for arranging for their three-day-old infant son Oedipus to be killed. They cannot do it themselves so they turn the murderous responsibility over to a Theban shepherd, who also is incapable of killing a defenseless baby. The Theban shepherd gives Oedipus to a Corinthian shepherd, who fosters Oedipus into the childless royal house. Just like everyone before them, Polybus and Merope keep quiet. Consequently, Oedipus makes the panic-stricken choices of someone who does not grasp reality and does not know who he really is.
Governing Thebes is Oedipus' responsibility in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Oedipus is king of Thebes. He shares royal powers with his wife, Queen Jocasta, and his brother-in-law Creon. But he tends to be the main royal responsible for the well-being of Thebes and Thebans.