"...You mock my blindness, do you? But I say that you, with both your eyes, are blind"( Sophocles, 400-401). Such a powerful yet contradicting quote. One might read this and ask themselves, "How can a man with two eyes be blind?" The answer to this sight question is seen metaphorically throughout the play Oedipus Rex. With a sightless man who sees all and a man who is rich with vision yet sees nothing of his own life, sight and the meaning of the word is put into question. If one looks deeply into this metaphor, it is made true that a company does not come with a mere set of eyes. We see this in Oedipus Rex through the blind seer, Teiresias, Oedipus' blindness to his actions and his eventual sight of the truth.
             The first example of the continuous metaphor of blindness is seen at the beginning through a blind seer named Teiresias. He is an old, physically blind man who is a servant to Apollo's great God. After being sent for to speak of what he knows of the murder of King La¿os, he reluctantly tells all and reveals that it is Oedipus who has, indeed, killed the king. "I say that you are the murderer whom you seek."(Sophocles, 348) Teiresias makes this powerful statement, and it is interesting because he is a blind man, yet he is also the only man who knows the entire truth surrounding the late king's death. Oedipus, on the other hand, is blind to this fact.
             We see Oedipus deny what Teiresias has said about the king's death throughout this play. Even for a second, he does not entertain the idea that the older man might have some truth to his tale. Even after hearing that the king was killed the same way Oedipus had admitted to killing an unknown man and many other bits of information that point the finger towards him, he remains blind to the fact that he is, in fact, the murderer. He denies that he was at all involved and, although the evidence points to him, he truly believes that he is innocent. "Now twice you have ...