What is the climax of Oedipus Rex?

functions in
a plot as the point of highest tension and is the point at which a character changes his point
of view.

In 's play, filled with ,the king of Thebes,
is, as the sightless seertells him, blinder than he,

But I
say that you, with your both eyes, are blind:

You cannot see the wretchedness
of your life

For, Oedipus accuses Teiresias of being a
madman andof desiring the throne. However, because he is of noble nature, Oedipus yet pursues
the truth until, after speaking with Jocaste in Antistrophe 2, he says, "I am
not sure that the blind man can not see." This, then, is the point at which
Oedipus changes his point of view; from this point he begins to put things together and declares
that he has reached a "pitch of wild...