Prove or refute the following : '' in Oedipus the king, The Greek dramatist Sophocles suggests that the impact of seeing the truth is harmful rather than enlightening''
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When Oedipus wanted to know the truth about his past, he was warned about the consequences of it.
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- Sophocles told him that seeing the truth might be harmful but Oedipus still insisted.
- Upon realizing the truth that he killed his own father and married his own mother, he was devastated.
- He gouges his own eyes with needles in order to become Nobel in the eyes of Tiresias who taunted Oedipus for being physically blind.
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