Perception In Sophocles 'Oedipus The King'

As we go about our daily lives, we are acquiring knowledge from our surroundings through the lens of our eyes. Henceforth, many describes knowledge as a mirror, where our knowledge is defined by our perception : this aspect of knowledge is extremely beneficial in terms of confirming the validity of knowledge itself . Nonetheless, not all the time what we see are true, there are exceptional situations when everything is not always what it seems. Compared to a mirror, our knowledge is also limited because we only see what perspective allows us to, we seldom think beyond what our eyes reveal to us.

Situations that can elicit our understanding of the world are often derived from our worldview; our worldview is determined from the way we perceive the world. As a result, our perception creates knowledge over the passage of time. According to many individuals, their eyes guarantees what they claim to be knowledge because the eyes only reveals

However, philosophically not everything we see is true. Our eyes can manipulate our way of thinking when questionable situation arises. These kind of situations particularly occurs when it comes to recognizing one’s identity. Sophocles ' Oedipus is about a man who is not conscious about his true identity: initially, he firmly believes that the parents he resides with are his original birth parents because they brought him up, but in reality they were his adoptive parents, he was abandoned by his actual parents because an oracle mentioned that he would kill his father and marry his own mother, Oedipus indeed married his own mother without any acknowledge . Thereby, everything is not always what it seems, and our eyes does not always reveal the truth to us. Ultimately, we can also proclaim that knowledge is a mirror is not always useful in terms of determining