For example, irony is used to insist on the importance of the themes and motifs outlined in the play. Irony occurs especially regarding sight and blindness (Haque and KabirChowdhury). In the early sections of the play Oedipus makes fun of a blind man, but in the end Oedipus ends up blind too. Furthermore, this blind man, who Oedipus taunts as incapable of seeing, ends up seeing the truth before Oedipus, who has sight, is unable to see it as clearly as it is presented to him. As if complaining about making fun of the blind man, literary Oedipus pierces his eyes with a pin and ends up being