tragedy Archives - There Plant Eyes

4 Out, Vile Jelly! (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Posted on August 29, 2021August 6, 2022'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature

Continuing our consideration of blindness as punishment and moral corrective discussed in Chapters 2 and 3, “Out, Vile Jelly!” is a deep dive into one iconic example of blinding, namely the violent plucking of the ...

2 The Tenacious Grip of the Blind Seer (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Posted on August 10, 2021August 6, 2022'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature

Tiresias the blind prophet who makes an appearance on the stage and page of so many Greek tragedies and epics (for example, Oedipus, Antigone, The Odyssey) is perhaps the oldest and most famous of the ...