tinued to ask the questions. He had probably already guessed some of the answers too. Since the country already believed in almost everything that was predicted by the gods, for Oedipus to have avoided his fate from gods would have caused great havoc. The people may have even used it against Oedipus. Since no one had ever beaten the gods before, he may have been looked at as a devil of some kind. If the prophecies had not come true, the people would probably have lost trust in Oedipus because of some foul reason, which would have resulted in the people disbelieving in him 7. Now if it seems that the gods did nothing but disrupt people's lives, they didn't. They also went out of their way to help man. They gave oracles and had prophets to spread their message. There are a number of oracles mentioned in the story of Oedipus. The first is the oracle from Apollo on how to get rid of the plague that was affecting the city. The second is another oracle from Apollo that Iocaste tells of how La?os was to die at the hands of his own son. The third is the famous Delphic Oracle that Oedipus is given telling him that he will kill his father and marry his mother. Apollo was not the only god known for helping man; others also gave oracles, even Zeus himself. This is to show that the gods really did like man and did try to help him; it was just man who is fallible and either tried to go against the gods or just refused to listen. Brozyna 8There were also prophets from the gods. In the story of Oedipus, there is Teiresias, the blind prophet. He is the only one who seems to know what the gods know. " The old man is a priest of Apollo he is a man of art, whose blindness has brought him insight unavailable to the more fortunate" 8. It was Teiresias alone who told Oedipus the truth that he was looking for; it was not his fault that he wasn't believed. The theme of blindness comes into play with him. For only the blind man can see the tru...
