Hamlet

Hamlet Blindness, Even With Sight The tragic play Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles, is filled with dramatic irony. Dramatic irony is when the audience has knowledge about the main character in the play that a major, predictable event will happen to him/her but the character is not aware of tragedy that will eventually ensue. Oedipus is a great example of a character who is unaware of his tragic end, even though many signs, clues, and blunt statements were made throughout the play. One such example of a dramatic irony in the play is the theme of blindness. When Oedipus persists in finding who is the murderer of the previous king, Laios, Oedipus is blind to fact that he is actually the killer which caused the plaque in the city of Thebes. The irony of it is that Teiresias, the blind holy prophet, is summoned by the king to tell the truth about who the murderer is. As we know, Teiresias is sworn to tell only truths. Finally with a considerable amount of prodding and harassment, Oedipus makes the blind prophet speak all that he is trying to keep secret from the him. However, instead of listening to the words of truth that are spoken oedipus, truth, play, blind, prophet, teiresias, irony, end, city, about, tragic, tragedy, thebes, man, dramatic, conflict, character, audience, trying, throughout, thing, tell, sees, save, resolves, murderer, knowledge, know, king, however, horrible, himself, gods, finding, finally, example