Monday, September 5, 2016

Blind Man Schools a Praised King

Oedipus is a troubled King as his town is being plagued and as he seeks answers he finds himself more distraught. However, I found the comedy within the Oedipus and Teiresias exchanging words with one another. As Teiresias keeps avoiding answering Oedipus' questions of what he knows on the death of the former king. You can see Oedipus' temper raging hotter and hotter from Teiresias giving home the run around (Lines 320- 349). Then he says..." you've made me angry"... in (Lines 345-349) and it sounds like a line out of an incredible Hulk movie. "Your making me angry and you won't like me when I'm angry", type feel. So they start taunting each other. Oedipus says so craftily that Tiresias is in a forever night so his words don't hurt him (Lines 374-375). It was so slick how he worded it. Then Teiresias called him out on this...."oh no you didn't".... kinda vibe....(Lines 412-415). He acknowledges this offensive and chooses to give him what he wants to hear. To Oedipus'surprise he's horrified from Teiresias' words and Teiresias basically tells Oedipus boldly..." Now watch what I say come true, bruh..." ( Lines 460-461) and then the blind man leaves Oedipus with an even darker cloud then his current state.

1 comment:

  1. Do you think that somehow maybe Teiresias was trying to protect him from knowing the truth about himself? I mean, why else wouldn't he just straight up be like "hey man, its you who killed him".

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