He realizes that he has not been the best son and brother to them. Oedipus, blinded by his own hands, has been walking the land with his daughter, Antigone. He is searching for his place to die.

Oedipus blinds himself. The central character in Puccini's opera Turandot is a devastatingly beautiful Chinese princess with, unfortunately, a heart of ice. Her self-esteem is off-the-scale ...

But the rains do fall once Oedipus is deposed, blinded; and the city’s feverish population, twisting and writhing in a series of extended modern dance sequences choreographed by Hofesh Shechter, ...

At the play’s end, Oedipus – blind, exiled, lost in a desert created by his own ignorance – vanishes into a literal as well as a symbolic darkness.