Various images are used throughout the play to portray a message or help create a better understanding of the message. The image that I chose is the image of being blind.
"Blind, lost in the night, endless night blind that nursed you!"(425)
"You with your precious eyes, you're blind to the corruption of your life, to the house you live in, those you live with ..."(469-470)
"Blind who now has eyes, beggar who now is rich, he will grope his way toward a foreign soil, a stick tapping before him step by step."(516)
Sophocles uses the image of being blind to show this seperation between this sence of reality and fantasy world. For example although Oedipus denies the truth that Tiresias had told him about being the murder of his own father, he's living within reality and he excepts it just doesn't wanna believe it. Asthe first quote states, after he realizes the truth he starts feeling as if he's lost in his own word. Another place where blindness is shown, is through Tiresias. Although he's blind which means that he can't see what so ever, yet he claims that he sees all. By that he means the future, the destiney of a person. This idea of blindness help portray the idea that man kind are blinded by their own fantasy world. While what they should be doing is focusing on what is happening to them in reality.
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