Oedipus the king is a story that has many themes within itself that could teach a valuable lesson to others. One of the main themes in this story is that of having the ability to see, both in the literal and metaphorical sense. There are many times in the story where different characters address this problem but mostly everyone is too blind to notice. One of the characters who can see the truth but ironically can't physically cant see, is that of Tiresias, the blind prophet. He is the one who could see the truth all along but everyone chose to be blind and not put the facts together to see the truth about Oedipus and his true identity.
Although Oedipus himself can see throughout most of the play, he still remains blind to the truth. In the story, he is trying to find out who is tiresias killer and tries to pinpoint every single clue he gets. What he doesn't realize is that he himself is the killer, which leads him to reveal the entire truth of his
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The Chorus addresses this when he states in lines 1340-1350, “but now for all your power time, all-seeing time has dragged you to the light, judged your marriage monstrous from the start- the son and the father tangling, both one- o child of laius, would to god. Id never seen you, never, never! Now i weep like a man who wails the dead and the dirge comes pouring forth with all my heart! I tell you the truth, you gave me life my breath leapt up in you and now you bring down the night upon my eyes”. The Chorus, along with everyone else, figures out everything about Oedipus’ true identity and threat he is the child of Laius and Jocasta. When he talks about the all seeing time, he is saying how through time and patience, everything would eventually be revealed, which did happen after a long time. Everyone was blind enough to realize who he was up until Oedipus got