Cithaeron in order to die there. That was the place which his parents had chosen to be his death-bed, and he would go and die there in compliance with their desires. His life is not going to end in any natural manner; he has been preserved to endure some destiny even more awful than that which he is already enduring.
He then appeals to Creon to look after his daughters who have nobody now to care for them. Once again he asks Creon to look after his daughters, also repeating his request to Creon to banish him from Thebes.
There would hardly be a member of the audience witnessing this play in a theatre who can control his tears while listening to this sad account. The dramatist has done well in not presenting these two scenes of horror on the stage and in conveying this information to us through the speech of an attendant.
These scenes would have been intolerable on the stage and would have made the play unduly melodramatic. He would not like to see any sight in the city of Thebes, neither the people nor the buildings nor the happenings. This self- blinding seems, from one point of view, to be a punishment for the evil deeds committed by Oedipus even though the evil deeds were committed unintentionally and unknowingly. However innocent Oedipus may be so far as intentions are concerned, he is yet guilty so far as deeds are concerned.
Two monstrous crimes have been committed by him, though in complete ignorance of the facts and in spite of every possible precaution taken by him to avoid committing them. Such deeds cannot go unpunished just because they were committed unknowingly. But the blinding serves one more purpose. The riddle of the Sphinx spoke of man feeble as a baby, man strong as a grown-up individual walking on two feet, and man feeble in old age.
We have had Oedipus as a baby, and Oedipus as a grown-up man, a strong traveller walking on his two feet. We now need Oedipus old and enfeebled, but Oedipus is still a man in his prime and very strong. Only such a disastrous self-punishment can break him so that, within moments, he has turned into an old man who needs someone to lead him.
So Oedipus has lived the three stages. The riddle of the Sphinx was the mystery of man. But it was specially the private mystery of Oedipus. In this sense, and perhaps in this sense only, Oedipus is Everyman. Another view may also be taken of this self- blinding. According to this view this blinding stands for the only logical self-punishment which in this case is tantamount to castration. The eyes are as precious to man as are the genitals. The man who committed incest with his mother deserved to be castrated.
The blinding is a symbolic form of castration. Various Factors in the Act of Self-blinding In Oedipus at Colonus, Oedipus tells his son that he blinded himself in a moment of frenzy and not from a sense of guilt. Perhaps no one reason for the self-blinding suffices, nor all of them put together. Oedipus is a tragic hero because he tried so hard to do the right thing for the people of Thebes, but his tragic flaw got in the way.
His stubbornness to uncover the truth killed many people he loved and cared about and he lost all his respect from the people of Thebes and his power. Being a good leader means that someone is humble, thoughtful and unselfish. Creon is a rather weak man who has been placed into a position of authority and is incapable of handling the position well. Creon was not able to lead well, because he let the huge amount of power he had go to his head.
By keeping him away from seeing his sins and mistakes, physical blindness gives Oedipus time to reflect on what he has done, how it connects to Teiresias' words and knows the truth. Answer and Explanation: Oedipus killed his father because Laius tried to run him down with his chariot. The two were approaching a crossroads at the same time. To learn the truth , Oedipus sends for the only living witness to the murder, a shepherd.
Another worry haunts Oedipus. As a young man, he learned from an oracle that he was fated to kill his father and marry his mother. Fear of the prophecy drove him from his home in Corinth and brought him ultimately to Thebes. The name Oedipus is a Greek Baby Names baby name. Oedipus Rex reminds us of the blindness and arrogance of the powerful.
This message is still relevant today. Oedipus is a king who has at his disposal the ability to find out what is causing a plague to descend on Thebes.
Oedipus ' pride leads him to not only believe he can thwart their will; he doesn't believe their will when he hears it, despite everyone around him suggesting he pay attention. His pride has blinded him to his oncoming downfall and, fittingly, his punishment for that is to actually become blind.
The cause of Oedipus ' downfall is his hamartia or mistake, which was caused by his pride and impulsiveness, his hubris. When the play opens a plague is afflicting Thebes. Thus, Oedipus begins a quest to find Laius's killer. He sends for Teiresias, a blind prophet to know the truth about Laius' murder. The last lines of the play seem to mean something significant to the text. Throughout the text, Oedipus tries to control his fate by escaping suffering.
He runs away from Corinth to avoid killing his father and marrying his mother, and by running he fulfills his fate. I strongly believe that Oedipus is a victim of fate. By trying to avoid the oracle that foretold his life he was at the same time fulfilling his fate.
It was fate that led his father to Delphi to find out the destiny of his Oedipus. Also, it was fate , which made Laius and Jocaste to make the decision to kill their son.
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