Oedipus the King According to Webster's Dictionary, fate is defined as "A power that supposedly predetermines what is to happen" (257). In the play "Oedipus Rex" each character is touched by fate directly or indirectly. The author of the play Sophocles pens the story of a man who was destine from b...

“…You mock my blindness, do you? / But I say that you, with both your eyes, are blind :”( Sophocles, 400-401) Such a powerful yet contradicting quote. One might read this and ask themselves, “How can a man with two eyes be blind?” The answer to this question of sight is seen, metaphorica...