Confronted with the horrific truth on many levels,is placed in an impossible reality.
He acquires a sense of the pathetic because he is exposed to be a frail human being. He
understands that the truth and his role in it are both horrific. He has married his mother and
killed his father. Oedipus has also recognized that he has experienced a painful reversal. From
the king who swore to go to the ends of the earth to find the source responsible for the plague
that has besieged his people, he has realized that he is the source of their pain. Oedipus as
both man and ruler has been exposed as a frail human on both professional and personal levels.
This instant, a threshold of painful revelation, is a reality from which he cannot
escape:
For he removed from her garment the
golden
brooches which she was wearing; he lifted them
and struck the sockets
of his own eyes,
shouting that they would not see either the evils
he had
suffered or the evils he had done,
now only in darkness...
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