By: Ahmad Mokhlis B Inngam 144509
One of the most significance character in the play ‘Oedipus Rex’. A handicap like him has a page to help him in daily life, yet he is wiser than the king. As the subject of the king, the servant must act to king order but the blind prophet ‘order’ the king to follow his advice. I wonder why the roles of them are changed.
Teiresias is actually a Greek tales. From what I discover, there are two versions that cause his blindness. The first is because he accidently sees Athena when she is bathing and later she curses him to be blind. Another version is he change to a woman by Hera after his stick hit copulating snakes. After a few years, the same incidents happen and he was changed back to a man. Poor Teiresias. He has to undergo two different lives even though all that happen was an accident. Later he was asked by Hera and her husband about who are better in sex. Teiresias answer truthfully and because of that he makes Hera angry and he is curses to be blind.
So can you relate the character Teiresias? The idea is, he is telling the truth but no one believes him and then curses him. In the end of the play, the king blinded himself. Why???
Hm, I think that people always do that; not believing others because of their appearance, because they might think that they are superior compared to the untidy or in this case, a blind person.
ReplyDeleteThey simply do that because they do not experiencing what the particular person has experienced as a blind man. For them, a normal people can do better than a blind man without knowing that their sight might not helping them as a blind man's insight help him because he could not see.
You asked a question about why the king blinded himself by the end of the play. For me, for the moment, he felt like if he is blind, he could see things that he could not see when he was a normal person. But then, his action does not bring back what he has done in the past. That is so pity. Isn't it?
yes i agree with you. that is the foolish action by the king because he think he can be 'better' like teirisies if he blind his eyes. but his action just make him suffer..
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