all his physical perfection cannot see anything. Throughout the play Oedipus continuosly belittles and accused everyone of the crime that he is guilty of. In Act II, Scene II he calls Teiresias a “blind and impious traitor Thus Oedipus’ ignorance, or blindness, is his hamartia, and were it not for this it is unlikely the audience would have been as pitiful of Oedipus as they would be when viewing Sophocles’ play in its present form—if Oedipus had acted knowingly at any time he would unquestionably been viewed of as the very model of inhumanity, and he would certainly not arouse the pity that ought to be aroused in a tragedy. As Oedipus says himself, "I simply didn’t know."...
