Sight as represented in Oedipus Rex and Cathedral

The blindness in Robert was of course , apparent to the woman who cared for him in Seattle , who is the wife of the narrator . In a peculiar sense , she may possess the sense of sight but is blind , figuratively speaking . Yes she did care for the blind old man who gave her a job , but she did not , by all means see that her husband is there , waiting to be recognized . She had spent several years pondering about what had happened to the blind man she had worked for and in the process of

doing so , had forgotten that she had been neglecting her husband all along the same can be said when the blind man paid a visit , it is as though her husband did not exist . The puzzling part where the husband and Robert were drawing a cathedral said it all . What Robert lacked in sight , his imagination was almost too good he did not need the restoration of his eyes , too good that the woman 's husband who was not blind was also amazed , for Robert surpassed his own imagination to successfully draw a cathedral

Tiresias ' qualities were almost that of Robert 's , as his physical blindness revealed the mental blindness of Oedipus . Being a fortune teller , he need not see the physical in to predict things , as he was able to see into the future destruction of Oedipus . He even told Oedipus that it was his eyesight that prevented him from seeing the embedded truths in his life , And since you have reproached me with my blindness , I say - you have your sight , and do not see what evils are about you , nor with whom , nor in what home you are dwelling (Sophocles 15 . Tiresias is a blind man who can see , Oedipus can see but...