In Sight vs. Blindness, Oedipus doesn’t want to use his own eyes to see that he is the problem of Thebes. The priest tells Oedipus that Thebes is “tossed on a murdering sea and cannot lift her head from the death surge” (Sophocles 26 −27). Therefore, a plague has spread among the Thebes, because a long time ago, the former King Laius was murdered. Oedipus wants to find out who killed King Laius, but he doesn’t know that he killed his own father. His uncle/brother in law decided to bring Teiresias, a blind prophet that knows everything could help him. Oedipus met with the blind prophet and asked him, why his “eyes are so cold”? (Sophocles 307). Teiresias knows something very important and already knows how Oedipus is going to react. Later,
