Blindness and Sight

In Oedipus the King, the idea of blindness and sight reoccures all throught the story and is used to express the pursuit of knowledge. Oedipus is blind due to the fact that he doesn't know he's the murder of the the king. He is very angry and says "let the man drag out but his life in agony, step by painful step." If he were to find out the truth he would fill up with different emotions. The feelings would be anger due to him being the murderer and nervousness due to him thinking of what may happen if others figure out he's the murderer. Oedipus also calls himself "Oedipus the ignorant" because his action of slaughter was done under not much information of others. Having sight leads to being ignorant but being blind leads to knowledge. Once Oedipus found out he killed his father and married his mother he stabbed his eyes out with a sword. Him blinding himself is part of the pursuit of knowledge since he knows more of what's happened. After all of this took place Oedipus just wants to get away from everything, "he will grope his way toward a forign soil, a stick tapping before him step by step," as said by Tieresas. The motif of blindness and sight & pursuit of knowledge tie in with one another in Oedipus the King as blindness and sight are what leads to th gain in knowledge. Oedipus had sight until he found out the truth of his family, he became blind after learning the truth and will learn more as a blind person.

The Truth

   The past, present, and future can lead us to the truth in many ways. We can find out the truth to something by learning about things that happened in different parts of time. Each part of time can hold specific information that can bring a person closer to the truth. The more the person discovers the more he would learn and the closer he will be to the truth. As people find out more about what they are looking for the clues they've found will lead them to more clues and more and so on. The truth will be hard to discover without the information found in the past, present, or future.
   Seeking out for the truth can be very challenging as seen in the movie "National Treasure: Book of Secrets." This movie is movie about a man named Ben figuiring the secrets of the death of Abraham Lincoln. Ben knows that his family did not take place in his assassination so he wants to prove this to everyone and reomove his family name from history. Ben had to go through a lot of trouble to do so. He had to kidnap the president in order to get ahold of the book that would lead him to the truth. The book was written in the past and was a big part to finding out the truth. The information that was discovered by Ben in the present was also very useful to finding out about the book and the facts found within it. The future is when his family name is cleared from the assassination of Ahraham Lincoln. All of these different parts of times which include the past, present, and future lead to the truth by working together to give out the correct information and in Ben's case it is to clear his family name due to the mistake people made about the death of Abraham Lincoln.
   The truth can and will be found after the past, present, and future. I will find out my true future after my years at the university which is my early future. My present knowledge will lead up to my years at college. What happened in past is what led me to where I am know and where I will go in the future. The future is effected by both the present and the past. The present is effected by the past. Each part of time ties in with another and is being effected to find out the truth.

Oedipus Rex

The story of Oedipus Rex is a story that puts the reader to think. The characters in the story perform different actions that cause the readers to reflect over what they have just read. There is big dramatic irony that fools with the reader's mind and makes us not want to know about it. Oedipus Rex killed his father, married his mother and then had four children with her. Today this type of action would not be accepted. The irony is spreaded all over the story. Oedipus demands that the person who killed the previous king, his father which he did not know at the time, shall be found and killed due to his murderous actions.The bad knews was then given to Oedipus by Creon through plots that went against him. Jocasta, his mother, then told Oedipus what happened several years ago. Jocasta said " there was an oracle once that came to Laius, and it told him that it was fate that he should die a victim at the hands of his own son, a son to be born of Laius and me,"... "the thing he feared, death at his son's hands." If King Laius were still alive he would regret not killing his son rather than just cutting his ankles. If Oedipus were dead he would not have died and hos son would not marry his wife. Jocasta then felt sad of the death of Laius and decided to kill herself in her bedroom by hanging herself on a noose. Oedipus walked in and saw that she was dead so decided to stab his eyes out. The whole story revolves around the idea of destiny. The Oracle knew what was going to happen in the future. Everyone's destiny may not be the most favorable but it's still destined to happen. No matter how good or bad a person's destiny is it will happen. The story of Oedipus Rex is very interesting and dramatic. The problems that took place were very uncommon at the time and is still uncommon today but is more seen. These problems are still odd no matter when or how many times they were done.