This is about the greek tragidy Oedipus. Includes quotes. About one of the themes From ingorance to knowledge.

From Ignorance to Knowledge In the Greek Tragedy Oedipus, Oedipus moves closer to knowledge and truth as each scene progresses, but something distracts him from it. Each scene advances his search and delays his discovery. In the end he finally realizes his blindness, and he greatly punishes himself for is actions. This is just one of the three themes in the Greek Tragedy. In scene one the oracle Teiresias, who has just seen the god …

…the comparison that he is truly blind by his pride, and gouges out his eyes. Oedipus goes from ignorance to knowledge of his life. From scene to scene he learns bits of pieces of his life as he is distracted in the process of putting the pieces together. Oedipus is a true Greek Tragedy because Oedipus is of nobility which has a fault which goes through self knowledge in his own part of his fall.