Blindness in Oedipus
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country for good. The blindness of the Herdsman caused the city to go through this suffering. I found this passage to be important because the irresponsible Herdsman was blind to the fact that he might be the cause of the extinction of a city. He single-handedly could have saved Thebes by making sure that Polybus and Merope were from another country or by allowing Oedipus to die the way Laius and Jocasta wanted him to.
country for good. The blindness of the Herdsman caused the city to go through this suffering. I found this passage to be important because the irresponsible Herdsman was blind to the fact that he might be the cause of the extinction of a city. He single-handedly could have saved Thebes by making sure that Polybus and Merope were from another country or by allowing Oedipus to die the way Laius and Jocasta wanted him to.