"You mock my blindness? Let me tell you this. You with your precious eyes, you're blind to the corruption of your life, to the house you live in, those you live with..." Tiresias (469-472) In the story Oedipus the King, Sophocles demonstrates the imagery of sight versus blindness through the use of tragedy, ignorance and dramatic irony
             The story begins with Oedipus' arrival at Thebes as a stranger. He comes to find the town under the curse of a sphinx that will only free the city if her riddle is answered correctly. Oedipus answers the sphinx riddle correctly, freeing the city and because the original emperor was recently murdered, he gains the crown and the empress of Thebes. Years later, Oedipus comes to find out that he is not only a Theban, but also the son of the emperor. He had been ordered to death by the emperor because of a prophecy that he would murder his father and wed his mother. Through an act of kindness his life was spared and when and oracle told Oedipus of the prophecy he left what he thought was his home and parents vowing to never return again. On his way to Thebes he runs into a caravan and after a heated discussion he becomes infuriated and murders the entire caravan. He relates this to the death of the original emperor and realizes that he has killed his father and married his mother m!
             aking the prophecy true. Horrified, he blinds himself and leaves Thebes forever.
             Sophocles wrote his tragedy Oedipus the King, he based it on the well-known story of Oedipus, which the Greek already knew and loved. Sophocles concentrated on the events directly leading to Oedipus' destruction, portraying Oedipus as a helpless pawn of fate.
             Sophocles used a literary device called dramatic irony. Without this literary device, Sophocles would not have been able to maintain the audience's interest since the conclusion and the events leading up to it were obvious to everyone. To bypass this diffic...