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Light vs. Dark in Oedipus
Throughout Oedipus the King, Sophocles employs one continuous metaphor: light vs. darkness, and sight vs. blindness. A reference to this metaphoroccurs early in the play, when Oedipus falsely accuses Tiresias and Creon of conspiracy: Creon, the soul of trust, my loyal friend from the start stealsagainst me... so hungry to overthrow me he sets this wizard on me, this scheming quack, this fortune-teller peddling lies, eyes peeled for his ownprofit—seer blind in his craft!
Tiresias responds by using the same metaphor: So, you mock my blindness? Let me tell you this. You with your precious eyes, you're blind to thecorruption of your life, to the house you live in, those you live with—who are your parents? Do you know? All unknowing you are the scourge of yourown flesh and blood, the dead below the earth and the living here above, and the double lash of your mother and your father's curse will whip you from thisland one day, their......

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