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This 5 page report discusses the fact that Uncertain vision serves as a unifying theme in both Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex” and Shakespeare’s “Othello” but there is a difference in how each of the authors present their characters’ overall vision and the direction of that vision. What they perceive or understand is not necessarily what they are seeing. Therefore, interpretation serves as the primary component that makes the difference in how the final outcomes are achieved but the end result is still disastrous. Both men lose everything. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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characters overall vision and the direction of that vision. What they perceive or understand is not necessarily what they are seeing. Therefore, interpretation serves as the primary component that makes
the difference in how the final outcomes are achieved but the end result is still disastrous. In the end of the stories, both men lose everything. Oedipus and Foresight More
than anything, regardless of what Sigmund Freud believed, "Oedipus the King" is a story of sight and insight and the determination that ones own perception of what he or she
sees determines their ultimate reality. It also points out that when a person is presented with a certain level of foresight, the outcomes are more than likely to deviate
from what they have assumed how the framework will actually present itself. It is that idea that causes Tiresias to minimize the praise for Oedipus when he is welcomed
as the great savior of the state. Keep in mind that Tiresias points out that wisdom is a dreadful thing when it brings no profit to the wise, and he
requests permission to return to his home. He says that since Oedipus did not speak in the past, Teiresias would now have to speak out. Of course, Oedipus is infuriated
by such statements and knows that they must have been instigated by one of his enemies. It is rare occurrence that anybody, in ancient Greece or the modern world,
would want to hear that they are neither prepared or even worthy to understand what a true or more legitimate "seer" is capable of seeing. Oedipus interprets Tiresias attitude as
a personal insult, since he is certain Tiresias knows the truth and is choosing to withhold it. What he perceives is his truth (as it is with Othello), even if
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