Sophocles Journal #4

Sophocles uses a lot of imagery throughout the play to get his message across and have the reader be able to understand what the theme is that he is trying to portray. Sophocles uses lots of imagery of light(truth as well as time play a big part in this imagery as well).

-"But now for all you power Time, all-seeing Time has dragged you to the light..." (p.356)

-"O god- all come true, all burst to light! O light- now let me look my last on you" (p.353)

-The imagery of light is used to portray truth, it is reached by Oedipus after certain period of time has brought out what has been happening in his life. Light is also being used to show that new facts are also coming to be known as the way in the play. Oedipus emphasizes that he will never look at light again and that it is his last time to look at it, this shows that the Truth has come out about Oedipus and that there is nothing left to acknowledge. Time was a big factor in getting the Truth to come out in this situation, nothing really could stop the truth from coming out, time forced the revealing of his truth. The truth was forced out by time in Oedipus, which shows that no matter how powerful a person is, the truth is bound to come out sooner or later.