... are approximately two thousand five hundred years old they still manage to teach lessons that apply to life in present day. In Sophocles" first Theban play, Oedipus the King, there are many lessons that are embodied by the characters, the plot and the theme. The most obvious lesson is that a person, despite ... not prepared to face the terrible truth of his past and in an effort to be masked from the truth again he physically blinds himself. The story of Oedipus then continues as the blind man, who was exiled from Thebes, is lead by his loyal daughter Antigone to Athens and to his death ...

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