https://padlet.com/hrlovic/o3lm1d4zm0sx en-us 2017-02-02 12:55:27 UTC 2017-02-03 00:15:23 UTC hello@padlet.com hrlovic https://padlet.com/hrlovic/o3lm1d4zm0sx/wish/151113842 "How terrible--to see the truth when the truth is only pain to him who sees!" (Sophocles, ll. 359-360).]]> 2017-02-02 13:03:01 UTC https://padlet.com/hrlovic/o3lm1d4zm0sx/wish/151113842 hrlovic https://padlet.com/hrlovic/o3lm1d4zm0sx/wish/151114257 "Too long you looked on the ones you never should have seen." (Sophocles, ll. 1407).]]> 2017-02-02 13:04:49 UTC https://padlet.com/hrlovic/o3lm1d4zm0sx/wish/151114257 hrlovic https://padlet.com/hrlovic/o3lm1d4zm0sx/wish/151114443 "...blind to the ones you longed to see, to know! Blind from this hour on! Blind in the darkness--blind!" (Sophocles, ll. 1408-1410).]]> 2017-02-02 13:05:31 UTC https://padlet.com/hrlovic/o3lm1d4zm0sx/wish/151114443 hrlovic https://padlet.com/hrlovic/o3lm1d4zm0sx/wish/151114878 Oedipus the King has many themes, one of which is sight vs. blindness. This theme is shown throughout the story through quotes, characters, and action. The blind prophet, Tiresias, is a living example of the theme. Since he is a prophet, he can see into others' futures; however, he is blind, so he cannot see the world around him. He says, on line 359-360, "How terrible--to see the truth when the truth is only pain to him who sees!" He's telling Oedipus that the truth does not hurt him because he can already see it. Another character that's an example of the theme is Oedipus. When he is blind to the truth about his prophecy, he can see the world around him, but once he finds out the truth about what he's done, he gouges his eyes out in order to become blind. On line 1405-1407, the messenger tells the leader about how Oedipus blinded himself from all of the suffering he caused. "'You, you'll see no more the pain I suffered, all the pain I caused!'" (Sophocles, ll. 1405-1407) The theme develops and changes over the course of the play. Oedipus believes he can see, but Tiresias knows he is ignorant. The course changes once Tiresias tells Oedipus what he's done. He changes his view on sight and decides that it would be better for him and everyone around him if he could no longer see. He says, "Too long you looked on the ones you never should have seen," (Sophocles ll. 1407) referencing his eyes and how he never should have seen either of his parents. Jocasta gained sight and knowledge once she learned of Oedipus' past. She tried to protect him from learning the truth. She says, "Stop-in the name of god if you love your own life, call off this search! My suffering is enough." (Sophocles, II. 1162-1164) The theme of sight and blindness is shown throughout the play through the characters and their actions.

]]> 2017-02-02 13:07:06 UTC https://padlet.com/hrlovic/o3lm1d4zm0sx/wish/151114878 hrlovic https://padlet.com/hrlovic/o3lm1d4zm0sx/wish/151117396 "Blind as you are, you can feel all the more what sickness haunts our city, you my lord, are the one shield, one savior we can find." (Sophocles, II. 344-346)]]> 2017-02-02 13:16:17 UTC https://padlet.com/hrlovic/o3lm1d4zm0sx/wish/151117396 hrlovic https://padlet.com/hrlovic/o3lm1d4zm0sx/wish/151118245 "O the terror--the suffering, for all the world to see, the worst terror that ever met my eyes." (Sophocles, ll. 1432-1434)]]> 2017-02-02 13:19:14 UTC https://padlet.com/hrlovic/o3lm1d4zm0sx/wish/151118245 hrlovic https://padlet.com/hrlovic/o3lm1d4zm0sx/wish/151118668 "...he digs them down the sockets of his eyes, crying, 'You, you'll see no more the pain I suffered, all the pain I caused!'" (Sophocles, ll. 1405-1407]]> 2017-02-02 13:20:41 UTC https://padlet.com/hrlovic/o3lm1d4zm0sx/wish/151118668 hrlovic https://padlet.com/hrlovic/o3lm1d4zm0sx/wish/151122477 2017-02-02 13:32:50 UTC https://padlet.com/hrlovic/o3lm1d4zm0sx/wish/151122477 carolinekonrad9 https://padlet.com/hrlovic/o3lm1d4zm0sx/wish/151325789 "Stop-in the name of god if you love your own life, call off this search! My suffering is enough." (Sophocles, ll. 1162-1164]]> 2017-02-03 00:11:50 UTC https://padlet.com/hrlovic/o3lm1d4zm0sx/wish/151325789 carolinekonrad9 https://padlet.com/hrlovic/o3lm1d4zm0sx/wish/151326032 By Hannah Lovic, Byung Lee, and Caroline Konrad]]> 2017-02-03 00:15:05 UTC https://padlet.com/hrlovic/o3lm1d4zm0sx/wish/151326032