Blindness Essays

The novel Blindness, written by Jose Saramago, is a dystopian fiction that follows seven individuals and how they navigate through their lives in the wake of a mass epidemic of white blindness. The blindness captures people and engulfs them into what one blind man describes as a “milky sea” (3). The opening scene shows the first victim of the white sickness losing his sight and gradually reveals everyone he has infected, excluding a doctor’s wife. The government sends those infected into quarantine

A Blind Man's Perspective Can you imagine a life without sight? In the short story Cathedral, the readers come across a man named Robert who lives with such blindness. Robert is the friend of the protagonist's wife and stays at their house after visiting some family. This story focuses on the thoughts and actions of the protagonist who is only referred to as the husband. He starts the story with a brief overview of his wife's past and how she met Robert. After filling the readers in, he picks up

39 million people have blindness in the world according to the national federation of the blind. The theme of blindness is In Oedipus the King, and the Riddle Of The Sphinx by Sophocles and is conveyed through Oedipus’s thoughts and actions.Oedipus is blind to the fact that he married his mother Jocasta and had kids with her. And killed his father Laius Previous to the story in The Riddle Of The Sphinx. And is blind with anger in all of his decisions. Oedipus has been completely blind to the fact

man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog, but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide." There is no one as blind as an individual who will not see. Individuals who pay no attention to what they already know are the most deluded. In King Lear, blindness is a reoccurring theme, and this quote connects to the protagonist, Lear, who is not physically blind, but is blind in a sense that he

For nearly century glaucoma is considered as one of the most common eye pathologies around the world, but also one of the leading causes of blindness. In fact, Glaucoma specifically in the United States, according to the book essentials of ophthalmology “ affects more than two million Americans of all age” (p. 108). Before going further in facts, a deeper look about such disease is necessary; an analysis of his origin, the causes and the solutions to the problem are indispensable.Moreover,

obvious things we see are not always how things are in real. In Oedipus the King, Sophocle exposes the trick of nature which is "what we see is not what is intended to be" and which turned to be a situational irony in the play, Oedipus the king. Blindness is not only apply to people who are blind. We have people who have sight but are blind when it comes to the knowledge of the truth, including the truth hidden behind their whole life. This is the case for Oedipus. Oedipus, the main character of the

In Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” the narrator in the story a man who could not clearly see the world around him, has a limited awareness about blindness. He went from being a little prejudiced and superficial to having a break through by socializing with a blind man. Beneath the surface he finds a revelation about himself. In the beginning of the story the protagonist the narrator in “Cathedral” seems narrow- minded and an insensitive person. He is prejudice and clearly has some flaws about how he

In Jorge Luis Borgers essay, “ Blindness” The author writes to reflect on blindness is not anything you can’t live with or as a negative situation of your life. Though his primary audience is everybody who can see but are not appreciating their ability to see, or also anybody who is scared of blindness. The author's purpose is to make the reader value that they can see, and to make the encourage the reader to not be afraid of blindness. The author does this through using his own story about being

self-awareness can often be traced back to a metaphorical blindness. Throughout the story, the blindness of characters can be easily observed by the audience, yet, as the play progressed, those who were oblivious would later turn out to become conscious of their situation. Ultimately, this newfound self-consciousness plays an important role in the resolution of the tragedy of King Lear. One character that is often overlooked when discussing the symbol of blindness is Edmund. Although it may seem as though he

Blindness is another theme that is well represented in the author’s story. Almost every character that the protagonist encounters has some degree of blindness whether it be literal blindness or blind allegiance to ideology. And in some instances, the protagonist literally and figuratively experiences blindness. The first and perhaps most significant example of this is at the beginning of the novel when the young black men are being made to fight in the Battle Royal while blindfolded. This type of

people are depressed to various extents, and that due to their disability they are narrow-minded; through “Blindness” Borges explains that blind people actually see shadows and even certain colors and they they are not at all depressed, on the contrary, they are actually far more imaginative and have sharpened their other senses thus Borges also touching on the figurative conditions of blindness. Judging from

Blindness is defined as the incompetence of the eye to physically see. However, in Shakespeare's writings, blindness is not a physical condition, but rather a mental defect in someone. Those who are blinded compose atrocious decisions which they would ultimately regret thereafter. King Lear is the story of a blinded king who accorded his kingdom to his two malevolent daughters and renounced his only ardent one. In this play, Lear, Gloucester, and Albany are three prime examples for the theme of blindness

1. Tiresias tells Oedipus, “But I say to you, with both of your eyes, are blind (46).” Blindness has an ironic twist: the blind have enough wisdom to realize that people do not “see” what is right in front of them. Literal blindness is when characters are physically blind (Tiresias). Metaphors occur when characters are blind to the truth (Oedipus). One who is metaphorically blind is helpless until they realize the truth; this comes from ignorance or an excess of self-pride that hide the truth. Tiresias

novel there are many variations on blindness and of seeing and not seeing that help lead to the theme of Fitzgerald's book. The theme of the novel is understood to be the disintegration of the American dream in an era of unprecedented prosperity and material excess, (SparkNotes). This theme is easily understood with the writers emphasis in the books of all the different cases of seeing and not seeing. Throughout the novel there are many interpretations of blindness that lead to the theme of the downfalling

Blindness: Tragedy That Allows You To See Reality Picture this, you wake up one day to go to school and start to get ready. As you walk to the bathroom, you stub your toe against the door because you physically weren’t able to see that it was closed. Not only are you in immense pain, but your mood is now also ruined. What an absolute disaster this is! For those living with blindness, this is just one scenario they have to worry about every day. However, even without one of the five main human senses

Character Development in Blindness When one reads the novel Blindness, they would think it’s about a group of people who are quarantined because of the epidemic. However, if we take a closer look, Jose Saramago was trying to show what it means to human. As the story progresses you notice how the protagonist, The Doctor`s Wife, goes through internal and external character development. Throughout the novel , the character, Doctor’s Wife evolves from quiet housewife to a thoughtful leader, finally

When a person ponders the state of blindness, the first thought is usually the impairment of a person’s eyes or the loss of physical vision. However, those who can physically see may possess more blindness than those without sight. In Raymond Carver’s Cathedral, Robert is a blind man who shows the narrator how to look beyond his physical sight and truly “see.” Through interaction with him, Robert instructs the narrator to observe beyond the exterior of a person so as to recognize inner beauty

Blindness and sight can have many different meanings, one of which is being naive and wandering. Julius Caesar is a good example of being blind. He is unaware of his surroundings and does not know what is going on in the story and because of it in the end he gets killed and his kingdom taken. Odysseus is the opposite, in the story The Odyssey, Odysseus needs to fight for his kingdom back, he knows what's going on and was not blind and naive, and was able to conquer. Julius caesar was blind and was

In Blindness, Jose Saramago uses both juxtaposition and imagery to represent the concept of “being evil for the greater good”; moreover, Saramago’s purpose is to convey how one’s morality and decisions are influenced by other factors such as a dictatorship. To begin with, there was a blindness that started spreading from person to person. First, it was the blind man, then the thief, the doctor, the girl with glasses, the boy with the squint, the doctor’s wife, and the man with the eyepatch. It’s

Franz Kafka’s short story The Metamorphosis, becoming a beetle gives Gregor insight on his family. Raymond Carver’s short story The Cathedral, shows Bub, a once judgmental man, the insight on blindness. Before their changes, they were blinded by what was in front of them. Life changes cause Gergor’s and Bub’s perspective to differ from what they once were. In the beginning, both characters are content with life, until changes take place. Bub is happy with his wife, but feels a pit of jealousy as