From my understanding I say that Tiresias is the revelation for the king and his wife(mother)
the reasons Is because even though his blind he is trying to find the truth of the king and the mother story on the king motives to be king. Tiresias shows how bad actions or path can lead to either hate, disgust and also regret for believing on a prophet that will only lead to death or life long pain.
Tiresias Represents truth and consequences as i said previously he is cracking down on the king secrets and his killing of his father.
in the end truth will be shown and oedipus will have to face irreversible consequences in which we need to careful.
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Hey Jonathan you made a good point about Teiresias. He was indeed the catalyst to the truth for Oedipus. Before you can see that he was making it look like someone else was the murderer. He even went as far as saying that Teiresias is not worthy of being called a prophet. All because he told Oedipus the truth. Sometimes the truth hurts because it destroys whatever “perceived” that someone may have before the revelation.
oh woah i didn’t even think about it like that on how the wife perspective. But i don’t know if i would say that she was truthful to herself, because she didn’t try hard for him to tell the true and i feel like she killed herself just to not deal with his consequences and she was thinking of herself when she killed herself, not even the kids.
Jonathan, does this post respond to the prompt for this week?