Find one quote in the reading (any part) that mentions blindness/sight/darkness/light. Keep the quote short and make sure you give the line number. This is first come first serve.
Read the other quotes first so that you don't repeat someone else's quote.
"Since you have taunted me with being blind, here is my word for you.
ReplyDeleteYou have your eyes but see not where you are in sin, nor where you live, nor whom you live with."
Teiresias, lines 465 - 468.
"For what you ask me-if you hear my words, and hearing welcome them and fight the plague you will find strength and lightening of your load."
ReplyDeleteOedipus lines, 231-234
Whatsoever escapes the night at last the light of day revisits
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"A deadly footed, double striking curse, from father to mother both, shall drive you forth out of this land, with darkness in your eyes that now have such straight vision"
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"I will bring this to light agian. King Phoebus fittingly took this care about the dead, and you too fittingly"
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"It has, but not for you; it has no strength for you because you are blind in mind and ears as well as in your eyes."
ReplyDeleteOedipus- Lines 416-418
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ReplyDelete"I do not know; I have no eyes to see what princes do."
ReplyDelete594-595
"May the Sun God, king of Gods, forbid!" -Chorus Line 741 and 742
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"To a terrible place whereof mens ears may not hear, nor their eyes behold it." Chorus, 1443-1434
ReplyDeleteTeiresias 410- "I say that with those you love best you live in the foulest shame unconsciously and do not swe where you are in calamity.
ReplyDelete".. Shall drive you forth out of this land, with darkness on your
ReplyDeleteeyes, that now have such straight vision."
Teiresias line 473-474
Kaitlyn
It has, but not for you; it has no strength for you because you are blind in mind and ears as well as in your eyes.
ReplyDeleteTeiresias' Line: 416-418
"I will not bring to the light of day my troubes, mine-rather then call them yours."
ReplyDelete"Your life is one long night so that you cannot hurt me or any other who sees the light."422-424
ReplyDelete"Blind, though now he sees- and poor, though now he's rich, he'll use a stik to guide his steps into another land." line 434
ReplyDelete*line 454
ReplyDelete"Great store of jealousy fill your treasury chests, if my friend Creon, friend from the first and loyal, thus secretly attacks me, secretly desires me out and secretly subborns this juggling, trick devising quack, this wily beggar who has only eyes for his own gains, but blindness in his skill."
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Lines 430-436
-Taylor Guillerault
Light of the sun, let me look upon you no more after today! I who first saw the light bred of a match accursed, and accursed in my living with them I lived with, cursed in my killing.
ReplyDeleteLines 2298-1302
Light
-Katie Manzo
"I at least shall be willing to see my ancestry, though humble." Lines 1181-1182
ReplyDeleteSecond messenger: ...such things it hides, such evils shortly will bring forth into the light, whether they will or not; and troubles hurt the most when they prove self-inflicted. Line 1347-1351
ReplyDelete"Had you had the eyes, I would have said alone your murdered him."
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Lines 385-386
-Lindsay Mower
"O god all come true, all burst to light! O light now let me look my last on you! I stand revealed at last" *1306-1308
ReplyDelete“So, you mock my blindness? Let me tell you this. You with your precious eyes, you’re blind to the corruption of your life, to the house you live in, those you live with—who are your parents? Do you know? All unknowing you are the scourge of your own flesh and blood, the dead below the earth and the living here above, and the double lash of your mother and your father’s curse will whip you from this land one day, their footfall treading you down in terror, darkness shrouding your eyes that now can see the light!” (183 lines 469-479)
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ReplyDelete“It does but not for you, old man. You’ve lost your power, stone-blind, stone-deaf—senses, eyes blind as stone!” (181 lines 422-423)
ReplyDelete"the old seer had eyes" discuss ideas of sight and blindness in the play.
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