Blindness--Jose Samargo

As a society, one of the most confounding blindness’s we face is our inability to see people for who they are without first judging them on their physical appearance. Who we associate with, who we love, and a lot of times how we perceive people is based largely on their appearance. If a person takes a moment to look around, they will notice that in general, good-looking people associate with people who are also considered pretty or handsome according to society’s standards. In Jose Saramago’s Blindness, this obstacle or defecit is overcome when

The idea of a society that is completely blind in the sense that they physically live their world in darkness is probably not something that is entirely believable. However, the concept that we live in a world in which we walk around blind to what is truly important and take for granted many things that we have the pre-conceived notion will somehow always be there is a very realistic idea. I think this concept is summed up thoroughly when the doctor in Blindness states “I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.” (326) Although we are completely aware of the world around us, we chose to see things the way we want to and in ways that will be of most benefit to us. I think we are truly a blind society in the sense that each individual is blind to their own personal things and when we are put together as a whole our blindness encompasses a gigantic spectrum of ideas and principles. I really believe that the concept of a completely blind society is very realistic. We are a blind society because we chose not to see not because we can’t.

he brings together the girl in dark glasses and the old man. Even after they regain their sight and she actually “sees” him for the first time wrinkles, baldness, imperfections, and all, she says to him, “ I know you, you’re the man I am living with, in the end these are words that are worth even more than those words that wanted to surface, and this embrace as much as words.”(325) Even though the experience of being blind was a tragedy, through this event the girl has learned that what is on the outside only matters a small fraction to what is on the inside. She could have walked away but instead she embraced him and put aside her old notions of the value of physical appearance. She had already “seen” him before she ever laid eyes on the old man. Through the unfortunate circumstance of becoming encompassed in the white blindness, all of the characters got to chance to see the world and themselves in an entirely different light which is an experience that would be so beneficial to re-create and extend to the real world.

One of the harshest realities in this world that I think Bl

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