Friday, 13 December 2013

In Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, how does Oedipus's ignorance lead to his blindness to truth?

In
the ancient Greek, written byin about 440 BC, 's ignorance of the
circumstances of his life don't lead directly to his blindness to the truth. His blindness to
the truth is his purposeful refusal to believe the truth, even after it's been revealed to
him.

In his Poetics, Aristotle wrote that the best Greek
tragediesof which he considered Oedipus Rex the best exampleproceed in a
logical cause-and-effect manner. In Oedipus Rex , the revelation of one
truth leads to the revelation of another truth until all truths are revealed and the play comes
to its logical...

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