| It is also ironic that, while the Oedipus trilogy is filled with emotions of denial and escape towards fate, the only person who is truly capable of seeing things the way that the gods have laid out before them is blind. Oedipus doesn’t fully understand the plan that the gods have laid out before him until he is blind himself. From Magill’s Survey of World Literature, “Genuine truth, Sophocles suggests, is not derived from mere observation of physical realities. Rather, truth is perceived through an inner wisdom and is possible only when one is not distracted by the things of this world” (Frank M. Magill). As the chorus at the end of Antigone declares, the blows of Fate can gain us wisdom (cliffnotes.com). | |
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