I am a blind prophet chosen to be the one to tell Oedipus of this terrible true prophecy. As I was sent to the palace to confront Oedipus, he wouldn’t allow me to leave without telling him everything that I knew. He tried to interrogate me about revealing my secrets about his fate, but I knew that it would cause pain for him and me. I denied his requests and all I got in return was words of anger and him accusing me of committing the crime. I couldn’t take those words and so I let him know that he was the curse and corruption of the land. That he himself was his own downfall, and the fate of his life was in his own hands. Oedipus tried to mock my blindness but in reality, he was “blind to the corruption of his [own] life, and to the house [he] live[s] in”(Fagles 183). He did not have any knowledge on the existence of his birth parents, or about the story of his fate. I told him that it was time for him to solve his own riddle to reveal the truths.
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