Sight
Sight “You’ve lost your power, stone-blind, stone-deaf—senses, eyes blind as stone! ... Frequently in Oedipus Rex, sight and seeing is used metaphorically to mean knowledge and understanding. Both metaphorically and literally, references to sight echo throughout Sophocles’s play, Oedipus Rex, as the blindness to his own existence unfolds into physical blindness. ... A priest explains the city’s plea with the play’s first vision of sight: “Our city, look around you, see with your own eyes, our ship pitches wildly, cannot lift her head from the depths, the red waves of death…Thebes is dying. ... While gifted with sight, Oedipus is blind to himself. The blind may not have physical sight, but they have a different kind of vision that is just as precious. ... Saying to Creon, “Drive me out of the land at once, far from sight, where I can never hear a human voice. ... Also, he begins to see what Tiresias has seen all along and realizes that one does not have to literally have sight to see what is going on in the world.