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Oedipus Blind Prophet

Oedipus remains in strict denial though becoming convinced that tiresias is somehow plotting with creon to usurp the throne.

Oedipus blind prophet. When tiresias arrives he claims to know the answers to oedipus s questions but refuses to speak instead telling him to abandon his search. Teiresias is reluctant. Provoked by the anger and insults of oedipus tiresias begins to hint at his knowledge.

Oedipus is now blind too yet his disability is derived from his own hand and is a consequence of the atrocities he has seen unlike the beauty tiresias saw. The blind prophet teiresias reveals that oedipus is his father s killer and that he oedipus is in an incestuous marriage with his mother. In oedipus rex the blind prophet teiresias serves as a moral guide to oedipus.

When oedipus asks him to reveal laius s murderer tiresias refuses to answer and instead asks oedipus to send him home. Here oedipus speaks to the blind prophet tiresias who despite his blindness can see the truth. Oedipus summons the blind prophet tiresias for help.

Scene 1 line 84. As oedipus sends for the blind prophet teiresias and he refuses to reveal the name of the murderer oedipus does not hesitate to reply i tell you i do believe you had a hand in plotting this very act 35. Oedipus swears to do this not realizing that he is himself the culprit.

Oedipus is enraged by tiresias refusal and verbally accuses him of complicity in laius murder. In the case of oedipus blindness was a punishment for his neglect of the truth. This line is the first of many in oedipus the king that indicate how characters who are literally blind can see the truth better than the characters with sight.

Teiresias is the blind prophet in the play oedipus rex specifically teiresias is called to help theban king oedipus find the murderer or murderers of theban king laius. The stark truth emerges slowly over the course of the play as oedipus clashes with the blind seer tiresias who senses the truth. A boy leads in the blind prophet tiresias.

This acknowledges that oedipus along with his people knows that the seer has a connection to the gods and knows all though he is physically blind. Oedipus displays his arrogance as he is unwilling to place his pride aside and calmly heed to the prophet of truth. Puzzled at first then angry oedipus insists that tiresias tell thebes what he knows.

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