Oedipus- modern critics

Question 1

Oedipus is his own destroyer

Answer 1

Fagles

Question 2

Tiresias is physically blind, while Oedipus is physically sighted but knows nothing.

Answer 2

Garvie

both fate and oedipus’ own character are responsible for his fall

Question 3

Oedipus modern critic about Ignorance and Knowledge

Answer 3

‘Tremendous reassertion of the traditional religious view that men is ignorant, that knowledge only belongs to the Gods’ -Knox