After Oedipus argues and insults Teiresias, he claims, I have saved this land from ruin. The first one is that the city is like a ship on bloody waves. Lazlo Versenyi, Thomas Hoey, Marjorie Champlain, analyze the play from different perspectives. Also, the reader, who understands the actions Oedipus has committed on the night of Laius murder, can say that he commits these sins in complete ignorance. Sophocles expresses his own conservative views on prophecy by setting up the double irony of a blind man who can see the future and a seeing man who is nevertheless blind to his own past and present blind even to his own identity. Eggy,High School, 11th grade,A+, He is ignorant to the truth. Towards the end of the play, Oedipus finally connects each of the pieces. I'm blind, you say, you mock at.