List several examples of blindness and sight imagery in Oedipus Rex and explain why these examples create dramatic irony.

The themes of blindness
and sight are key throughout this entire play, and of course feed into the dramatic , not only
in the inevitable ending whereblinds himself but also in the way that the audience knows that he
is the killer of the former king of Thebes who he is so desperately trying to find. This is
something that is evident in the initial declaration of Oedipus when he determines to find the
killer:

I'll start again--I'll bring it all to light
myself!

Apollo is right, and so are you, ,

to turn our
attention back...