True blindness in the heart for some people

Things are not always what they appear to be.  There is a fine line between what things appear to be and what they actually are.  Reality is not always black and white. Each person has his or her own perspective and opinions about what reality appear to be and what reality actually is. Even though a person may be physically blind that does not mean the person cannot see the world around them. In reality a bind person can see more than a person who has sight. People who can   physically see do not really open their eyes to the important things that really matter in life. As a opposed to blind people eyes are open to a more emotional insightful reality that people who have sight cannot see with their eyes open like the subtle things in life. This is shown in the real world and the literary world as well through the obstacles characters face due the blindness that they have suffered from because the appearance and reality of the world. This theme is expressed in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver.

Oedipus Rex is a play by Sophocles about false realities and the conflicts between fate and free will. Oedipus is a tragic hero. Oedipus is blinded by his fate because when finds he is adopted Oedipus hubris attitude causes him to think that he is doing the “right thing’ by running away to the city of Thebes where he was born. Oedipus hubris attitude represents his blindness to reality Even though, Oedipus does not know of his tragic fate, he blindly becomes the king of Thebes and married his mother succumbing to fate he was trying avoid. He appears to be this honorable happy king who wants to the “right thing’ for his people by finding and punishing the murder of the last Lauis, but in reality he is too blind to see that he is the murder. This is shown through the dialogue “What's done was well done. Thou canst never shake
my firm belief. A truce to argument.
For, had I sight, I know not with what eyes
I could have met my father in the shades,
or my poor mother, since against the twain
I sinned, a sin no gallows could atone.
Oedipus does not want to believe the reality of the possibility of him killing own father and marring his mother. He even denies when Theresias says “to Oedipus You are the murder you planned it you had done with own two hands” Oedipus “says “You dare say that?”Can you possibility you think you have” Some ways of going free after such insolence”? Oedipus’s hubris attitude keeps him from accept reality. Oedipus finally realizes that he is the murder of his father when Jocasta hangs herself because she could was too blind to see reality. Oedipus is already blind to what is right in front of him even if he literary blinds and kills himself after he sees his mother and loving wife hung   herself because she could not accept reality This story proves that Oedipus  blindness  represents his inability to open his eyes to the truth and that causes his downfall.

Blindness creates a world of obscurity only to be overcome with guidance from someone willing to become intimate with the blind. Equally true, the perceptions of blindness can only be overcome when the blind allow intimacy with the sighted. Raymond Carver, with his short story Cathedral, illustrates this point through the eyes of a man who will be spending an evening with a blind man, Robert, for the first time. Not only does this man not know Robert, but his being blind, "bothered"  him. His, "idea of blindness came from the movies", where, "...the blind move slowly and never laughed" These misconceptions of blindness form barriers between the blind and the sighted. Carver breaks down these barriers as he brings the vastly different lives of these two men together. Those of us with sight find it difficult to identify with the blind. This man, like most of us, can only try to imagine what life is like for Robert. As a result of his inability to relate with Robert, he thinks his behaviors are odd, and is unable to understand the relationship he has with his wife. His wife worked for this blind man many years ago, reading him reports and case studies, and organizing his "...little office" (Carver 98) in the county's social-service department. He remembers a story his wife told about the last day she worked for him. The blind man asked her if he could touch her face, and she agreed. She told him that Robert had touched every part of her face with his fingers, "...her nose-even her neck!"  His wife wrote poetry whenever something important happened in her life, and she "...tried" (Carver 98) to write a poem about this unforgettable experience. He said he didn't think much of the poem, (although he didn't tell her that), reasoning it was because he didn't understand poetry. In reality though, the act of the blind man touching her face is what he didn't understand. To him this seemed a bizarre encounter. Some people, like his wife and me, are able to realize how blind to reality of wife and Robert. "Close your eyes now” Robert1 said, Robert said, "Well? Are you looking?"I thought I'd keep them that way a little longer. I thought it was something I ought to do", the man said look we are drawing a cathedral. This shows the man realize that he was blind to the important things that really matter in life. As a result, the man’s really become open to the to  the blind man to a more emotional insightful reality that people who have sight cannot see with their eyes open like the subtle  things in life. The husband starts develop a positive altitude on life because of Robert influence on him.

A person may be physically blind that does not mean the person cannot see the world around them. In reality a bind person can see more than a person who has sight. People who can   physically see do not really open their eyes to the important things that really matter in life. As a opposed to blind people eyes are open to a more emotional insightful reality that people who have sight cannot see with their eyes open like the subtle  things in life. This is shown in the real world and the literary world as well through the obstacles characters face due the blindness that they have suffered from because the appearance and reality of the world. This theme is expressed in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver.