Wonder, Miracle, and Phenomenon

Learning Sophocles of “Oedipus Rex” make me wonder that what will happen to this world if Teiresias or oracle exist in this world, someone who have the eyes of god who can look upon the future. Teiresias once told that happen to have two genders male and female. In Greek mythology, Teiresias hit a pair of mating snake so Hera, Zeus’s wife turn him into women. Lady Teiresias possessed the power of prophecy so she can predict what will happen in the future. After seven year he change into women, he again found a pair of mating snakes and this time, he let it go. As a result, he was released from the curse and regains his masculinity. He then reveal the secret of women as he experienced it before that men only pleasure one over ten but women enjoy the greater pleasure after all. Hera mad at him and once again she cast a curse and struck him with blindness. Zeus can’t do anything but he did give him with the power of foresight to tell future or something the eyes can’t see. His power of foresight comes in different shape such as vision. Sometimes birds will eventually whisper to his ears about the information of prophecy because he also given the power to communicate with animal and so he used his gift to foretell future.
Later, when we read about Oedipus the king, he was accused of killing his own father Laios. The oracle, ’Teiresias’ predict that the plague happened to be Oedipus fault but he refused to say it at first but after he was threatened by the king himself, he couldn’t speaking anything else but the truth. Teiresias character is very powerful as he capture the moment where he know what is happening and what is going to happen. The symbolism of human power is rather blasphemy because he cannot see but he can tell what more than eyes can ever do. Indeed if the power fall to a wrong hand that cannot handle it and it might be a bad thing if human can discover what will happen next because we always want good thing to happen.