What is the role of blindness and sight in Oedipus Rex? Please discuss.

But I say that you, with
both your eyes, are blind:
You can not see the
wretchedness of
your life,
Not in whose house you live, no, not with
whom.

These are the words of the blind
seerto .  Later he tells Oedipus
that he is the one who is blind because he
"cannot see the evil" that surrounds him.
So, in 's ,
there is both literal and figurative blindness.

• Literal blindness

It is, indeed, ironic that the blind seer Teiresias is
more aware of the source of the
curse upon Thebes than the king, Oedipus who,
in his accusesof wishing the
throne and Teiresias",
whom he calls a "decrepit fortune-teller" "no more
clairvoyant" than he, of
insolence.  And, indeed, it is ironic that when Oedipus finally
realizes that
he is responsible for the curse upon Thebes, he literally blinds

himself...

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