Oedipus' situation is linked to Shakespeare's quote “Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing with which we fly to heaven.” Oedipus is an impulsive and passionate man, which leads him to fulfill the prophecy that has haunted him since his birth. He leaves the Corinthian kingdom in order to avoid his fate of killing his father to get closer to the prophecy by killing his father along the way. He kills his father at a crossroads, a symbol of choice, he chose to follow his own will and escape his destiny, but he was blinded by that will to the reality that he was fulfilling the destiny he was fleeing . Along the way, he cannot control his character and this personality flaw leads to his destruction. Blinded by ignorance and pride, he accuses Creon of wanting to overthrow him. Sophocles uses Tiresias' blindness to emphasize the great power behind wisdom and understand Oedipus' situation. It sends the message that wisdom and knowledge are important aspects of life, because without them we will be forced onto a path of suffering and destruction. Humans have power when they have knowledge and insight, but this power is prone to error because in reality we are all blind to the truth and our own destruction can be an inner force that consumes us until we die. what we are forced to face the truth. With the desire to find the truth and the fear of finding the truth heinous, he was fighting a losing inner battle that led to us carrying the burden of guilt for his father's death and being an embarrassment to the legacy of his family. This motif of blindness fits with the play's theme that wisdom is knowledge and that the pursuit of knowledge can be futile. If wisdom was one of Oedipus' strong points, he would have killed his father, creating a chain reaction of