Oedipus assignment

In Sophocles' Oedipus the King, Sophocles decided to enhance the tragic irony by using sight as the ultimate destroyer of King Oedipus. Sight in a deeper sense is described as truth, which is a battle that Oedipus was fated to struggle with. Oedipus is the direct result of a string of lies. His birth father, Laius, lied to his wife, Jocasta, by telling her that he killed the baby. The man Laius gave baby Oedipus to, lied to King Laius by saying he would take care of the baby by killing him. Oedipus' adoptive parents lied to him by saying they were his parents. These lies only caused Oedipus to be blinded by the real truth at hand and ultimately leads him to live out his fate by killing his father and sleeping with his mother.