Blindness, both literal and figurative, is a recurring theme in Sophocles's Oedipus trilogy. How does Sophocles depict this theme in Antigone?

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Lexie Friedman

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2 December, 14:36

Blindness, both literal and figurative, is a recurring theme in Sophocles's Oedipus trilogy. How does Sophocles depict this theme in Antigone?

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Yosef Ballard · Answer 1

The main way in which Sophocles depicts this theme in Antigone would be that " B. He contrasts Ismene with Antigone, by portraying Ismene as figuratively blind to her family’s woes, unlike Antigone" since this is the most blatant connection.