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The Blind Seer
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... Alexandra Piedrahita IB English I March 17th 2009 Oedipus Rex The Blind Seer We as humans relate seeing things to accepting them as knowledge. We use expressions such as "I see" and "seeing the truth" when we have understood something and taken it in, but is seeing really knowing? In Oedipus Rex, Oedipus's inability to see the truth despite the fact that he has the physical means to, contrasts Teiresias knowledge of the truth even though he is blind. The word The ironic tale of the blind man becoming the seer, and the seer becoming blind suggests the idea that knowledge does not actually depend on sight, and that we do not have to "see" something to know it. Throughout the play, Oedipus starts off being the man who can see but does not know the truth and ends up blind but knowing the truth, which is how Teiresius was all along. So who really
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