In 300 words or less, identify a metaphor or simile for Oedipus the King, and explain what the comparison conveys.
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One constant representation is utilized all through Oedipus the King, sight vs blindness and light vs obscurity.
Whenever Tiresias and Creon are erroneously blamed for intrigue by Oedipus, a reference to similitude happens.
"Creon, the spirit of trust, my steadfast companion from the begin takes against me. So eager to topple me he sets this wizard on me, this plotting quack, this crystal gazer hawking lies, eyes stripped for his very own benefit diviner visually impaired in his specialty!"
By utilizing a similar analogy Tiresias react that
"Things being what they are, you mock my visual deficiency? Give me a chance to disclose to you this. You with your valuable eyes, you're incognizant in regards to an amazing debasement, to the house you live in, those you live with-who are your folks? Do you know? All unconscious you are the scourge of your own fragile living creature and blood, the dead beneath the earth and the living here above, and the twofold lash of your mom and your dad's revile will whip you from this land one day, their footfall stepping you down in fear, murkiness covering your eyes that presently can see the light!"
Inevitably, Tiresias is correct and ends up being the champ and is uncovered when Oedipus find out about his appalling destiny, " O God-all worked out, all burst to light! O light-now given me a chance to look my keep going on you! I stand uncovered finally reviled in my introduction to the world, reviled in marriage, reviled in the lives I chop down with these hands!"
The above lines speak to the analogy of light speaking to information and truth.
Thus, the eyes which were visually impaired for such a long time, cause the ruler to gouge out his eyes.
"You, you'll see no more the torment I endured, all the agony I caused! Excessively long you looked on the ones you never ought to have seen, oblivious in regards to the ones you yearned to see, to know! Daze from this hour on! Daze in the obscurity dazzle!"
"What great were eyes to me? Nothing I could see could bring me euphoria."
Subsequently, through different passages from the play one can induce that locate is basic in play. In correlation, however Tiresias who is physically visually impaired can see reality while, Oedipus who had physical sight is visually impaired towards his destiny. Along these lines, at last, Oedipus when at long last learns reality blinds his eyes and sees at long last.