Things Are Not Always What They Seem

<Tab/>"Learning comes through suffering" (pathei mathos), nothing more clearly represents the tragedy of Oidipous the King than this statement. Not knowing who he truly is and having construed his own identity based on the information he thought to be true but is false, Oidipous, through a process of self-discovery and pain, is able to unravel the mystery that is his identity. Oidipous the King is a tragedy that clearly depicts the irony in the saying that, "it is when one is blind that one can see the most clearly", because Oidipous must lose his sight to finally "see" that…