Because he doesn't want see anything anymore because he thinks he will only more bad things will happen to him.
It is the his wife's brooches that Oedipus uses to stab his eyes out in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban King Oedipus finds the body of his dead wife Queen Jocasta hanging by the threads of her own robes. He puts the body down on the floor and removes the golden brooches that hold her robes in place. He then stabs both his eyes out with the brooches.
He puts out his own eyes.
No one. Oedipus blinds himself in the play 'Oedipus Rex'.
He had sex with his own mother, which made him cut his eyes out, and banished himself from the kingdom.
Oedipus gouges out his eyes, and asks Kreon that he be exiled to a place where no Theban will ever see him.
It is the his wife's brooches that Oedipus uses to stab his eyes out in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban King Oedipus finds the body of his dead wife Queen Jocasta hanging by the threads of her own robes. He puts the body down on the floor and removes the golden brooches that hold her robes in place. He then stabs both his eyes out with the brooches.
No, it is no accident that Oedipus stabs himself in the eyes in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban King Oedipus has the motive, looks for the means, and takes the opportunity. He removes the golden brooches from the robes of Queen Jocasta, his dead wife and mother. Just before plunging the brooches into his eyes, he says that he no longer will have to see the horrors of his life.
He puts out his own eyes.
No one. Oedipus blinds himself in the play 'Oedipus Rex'.
He stabs his eyes out.
He had sex with his own mother, which made him cut his eyes out, and banished himself from the kingdom.
yes how else are they gonna see to stab you with their stinger
Oedipus gouges out his eyes, and asks Kreon that he be exiled to a place where no Theban will ever see him.
It is with his wife's gold brooches that Oedipus gouges out his eyes in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban Queen Jocasta hangs herself with the threads from her own robes. King Oedipus, her son and her second husband, removes her body to the floor. He then takes the gold brooches that hold the robes together and uses them as a weapon with which to blind himself.
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.
His ankles, his cane and his eyes are Oedipus' symbols in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, the term symbol describes something that explains or represents someone or something else. The description fits Theban King Oedipus' ankles, cane and eyes. For example, Oedipus' life is represented in the assassination attempt that leaves his ankles scarred and swollen, the murder that fulfills his fate as his father's killer, and the offense that fulfills his fate as his mother's husband.
when oedipus solve the riddicul :laius s murder with the help of theban shepherd he punished according to curses himself and he puts out his own eyes