When one holds an overbearing pride for oneself, one’s destiny is expected to be filled, eventually, with misfortune and sorrow. At the end of the play, Oedipus blinds himself due to the overwhelming realization that he did not have such complete control over his destiny. However, the reader can determine the destiny Oedipus will eventually face early in the story as it unfolds with motifs of vision and blindness and as Oedipus’ unwillingness to see the truth due to pride ultimately diminishes as the play ends in a horrific tragedy.
Vision is referred to frequently during the course of the play in both a metaphorical and physical sense. References to eyesight develop a meaningful pattern to literal and figurative blindness. The pro
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