Monday, March 31, 2008

Comment on character Teiresias in play Oedipus by Sophocles.

After reading the play, Oedipus by Sophocles, I want to comment about one of the characters in the play, which is Teiresias. As far as I can see the character has a lot of differences between the main character itself which is Oedipus. Tireasias was a blind soothsayer or fortune teller. He was also describing as blind seer (prophet) and a wise man. Teiresias was accompanied by Page who was actually helping him for moving. That can proved by looking at the text for the play, page 1392 lines 82
‘Enter the blind seer Teiresias, led by Page’.
That shows that, Teiresias was getting help to move around. Even though, he was blind, Teiresias was wise and good at heart. He can see what people who was not blind cant see.

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