Oedipus The King Blindness

When it comes to blindness, the first thing many people think of is just you can’t see, but, in many cases, that isn’t true. For example, someone could be hiding in plain sight, but a different person might not see them because they're blind to the obvious hiding place. But, In “Oedipus the King,” by Sophocles, Blindness is a theme in the story because Blindness is shown in many different ways at many different points in the story. Before the events of “Oedipus the King” happened, In “The Riddle of the Sphinx,” Oedipus thought that his true parents were the king and queen Corinth, so when he found out about the prophecy, in which he was to kill his father and marry his mother, he ran away. Unknowingly on the way killing his father, when he arrived Thebes and solved the riddle of the sphinx, after doing this, he unknowingly married his mother; Thus not knowing it, but fulfilling the prophecy. But, in this instance, Oedipus blindly fulfilled the prophecy. Blindness also takes its

Oedipus had a tendency to get very angered very easily, he was also a very skilled fighter, so that was not a good combination. In “The Riddle of the Sphinx,” Oedipus would stay by the docks to gain knowledge from sailors that dock in the port. But, one day a passing sailor tried to tell Oedipus that the king and queen of Thebes were not his real parents, which was true, but Oedipus didn’t know that, so he brutally beat the sailor to near death. Finally, later on in the story when he was at the crossroads, the king of Corinth was riding a chariot with two slaves in disguise. But when one servant whipped him, he grabbed the whip and killed the king of Corinth, who was his true father, and one of the servants, while the other servant ran away. In conclusion, Blindness is shown as a theme in “Oedipus the King” and “The Riddle of the Sphinx,” by Sophocles, it was shown throughout both stories by Oedipus and many other