in the tragedy of Oedipus Rex and Antigone, Oedipus and Creon do foolish actions. In a way they had eyes yet were blind to the actions they created.
The story of Oedipus was well known to Sophocles’ audience. In Oedipus Rex, Oedipus was born from Jocasta and the king as a prince, but a prophet foretold that he would kill the king and "lay" with his mother. So the king and Jocasta let him bleed out on a mountain. Afterward he was then raised by the people who found him. when he grew up he then killed a unknown man (the king) on the streets from random pleasure and then forgets about it later on. So Oedipus arrives at Thebes a stranger and finds the town under the curse of the Sphinx, who will not free the city unless her riddle is answered. Oedipus solves the riddle and, since the king has recently been murdered, becomes the king and marries the queen. In time, he comes to learn that he is actually a Theban, the king’s son, cast out of Thebes as a baby. He has killed his father and married his mother. Horrified, he blinds himself and leaves Thebes forever.
This story portrays countless forms of blindness. in the first act of blindness, his parents decided to kill their son just because a prophet said he would be their end. For some reason the just followed this fortune cookie thus leading to it happening. secondly, Oedipus and his random murder. for some reason unknown he decides to kill a random man off the street not even knowing who it was. another form was Jocasta marring oedpus who clearly shows signs from her staking him in the ankles but somehow not ever even knowing they're there.
Antigone and Ismene, the daughters of Oedipus, discuss the disaster that has just befallen them. Their brothers Polynices and Eteocles have killed one another in a battle for control over Thebes. Creon now rules the city, and he has ordered that Polynices, who brought a foreign army against Thebes, not be allowed proper burial rites. Creon threatens to kill anyone who...
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