According to the story, Oedipus accuses Kreon of trying to take his place as king and Teiresias acted as if he didn't know what was going on in the first scene, "Why, he is no more clairvoyant than I am!" After accusing Kreon of this crime, Oedipus has realized that he has placed his "curse" ironically upon himself than on Teirasias or Kreon. The curse that Oedipus articulates is: "May I never see the day! Never! Rather let me vanish from the race of men, Than know the abomination destined me!" When Oedipus finds out the truth in Scene 3, he says: "O light, may I look on you for the last time! I, Oedipus, Oedipus, damned in his birth, in his marriage damned, Damned in his blood he shed with his own hand! .
Oedipus was an evil person who married his mother, killed his father and caused pain to his people from the plague. The evil he had committed were with full eyesight so he wanted to make himself blind instead of dead for a worse punishment. This act of blindness is symbolic because when he committed all those evil things, he had full vision and now he doesn't which changes him as a person. I think it changes him because he doesn't don't think about having full power anymore. He sees this clearly and it's important because of his love for his daughters: "My children, where are you? Come here, come to these hands of mine that are siblings to yours, hands that brought to this sad state the once bright eyes of your begetting father, who, children, neither seeing nor knowing was proved your father from the same place he himself sprang. And I weep for you, although I cannot see you; contemplating the bitterness of your lives, the sort of life men will force you to live." This defines consciousness because it took losing his physical sight to realize his metaphysical sight. .
The theme of hubris that shows throughout the play is excessive pride and arrogance.
