Thebes In Oedipus The King, By Sophocles
Oedipus, at the beginning of the play speaks to the young people of Thebes and asks them why they are all there when the city is in need of help. Thebes has been cursed with a plague and the people need their god to tell them what they need to do to save their city. Oedipus sees an old priest bowing at his feet and he asks him to speak for everyone of the reason they are bowing down to him in such a manor. Oedipus says he is ready to help with whatever it takes to help his people. He said he would do anything, be "blind to misery" not to see that these people are in desperate need of his help. "Oh, my children, the new blood of ancient Thebes" (line1) Oedipus used the phrase "my children" to emphasize that his people mean as much to him
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He used her broaches and held them high to show everyone that he takes complete blame for what he has done. He feels like she killed herself because of him and blinded himself literally to the world. "You, you'll see no more the pain I suffered, all the pain I caused!" (Lines 1405-1406). Oedipus is say that he is punishing himself for what he has done. He might be showing the gods that he does not need murdered or exiled because what he has done to himself was much more painful. "Too long you looked on the ones you never should have seen; blind to the ones you longed to see, to know! Blind from this hour on! Blind in the darkness!" (Lines1407-1411). He should have never seen his mother in the ways of a wife. He longed to see the murderer of Laius when he was blind to know that it was himself the entire time, he may have longed to know his parents when he lived with his real mother for years. He was blind his whole life in a way that he did not know was possible for such a powerful man. He then blinded himself literally as if he has been his whole life anyway. He was blind in the light, what was the need for light when he was blind anyway. He wanted to blind himself so he would not literally have to see the pain anymore, "to see" or "to know" was too much for
He used her broaches and held them high to show everyone that he takes complete blame for what he has done. He feels like she killed herself because of him and blinded himself literally to the world. "You, you'll see no more the pain I suffered, all the pain I caused!" (Lines 1405-1406). Oedipus is say that he is punishing himself for what he has done. He might be showing the gods that he does not need murdered or exiled because what he has done to himself was much more painful. "Too long you looked on the ones you never should have seen; blind to the ones you longed to see, to know! Blind from this hour on! Blind in the darkness!" (Lines1407-1411). He should have never seen his mother in the ways of a wife. He longed to see the murderer of Laius when he was blind to know that it was himself the entire time, he may have longed to know his parents when he lived with his real mother for years. He was blind his whole life in a way that he did not know was possible for such a powerful man. He then blinded himself literally as if he has been his whole life anyway. He was blind in the light, what was the need for light when he was blind anyway. He wanted to blind himself so he would not literally have to see the pain anymore, "to see" or "to know" was too much for