Choice of blindness in "Oedipus the King".

The concept of sight is one of the major motifs throughout Sophocles' play Oedipus the King. The play revolves primarily around series of events caused by many people's insight or lack there of. Oedipus does not see that he is caught up in a web of cruel destiny that he cannot escape. Tiresias, one of Apollo's prophets who happened to be blind, was the one who was sent to tell Oedipus his fate. Throughout the …

…Through the entirety of the play, Oedipus was pushing the fact that humans were in control of their lives, that his fate hadn't come true; therefore the Gods weren't in control. But in the end, when Oedipus finally realizes that he had acted out the complete prophecy, was blind yet could see clearer than ever, he had realized that when trying to fight free will and fate, that the Gods and fate will always win.