In the book Blindness by Jose Saramago, at first found it very difficult to read; I mean you're so use to names instead of titles and quotations instead of no quotations. But I now get that the blind couldn't really put a name to face because they can't see it. It didn't have quotations because they are putting voices to titles to differentiate people. Though I find it difficult to get how the moral of it all was, but I least got out of it a good read. Also, I believe it shows how people are really like if they know that no one can see them--consenual or nonconsenual sex in public, nudity to wearing less clothing, stealing, dancing in the rain, taking a dump here and there with no shame or even picking your own nose.
There are a lot of things that happens behind close doors or when the curtains close. Humanity in us can be taken from us, and when it is taken, we all be tested our very souls. In those times it is that pain that will allow people to look inside themselves. They reflect and see who they are and that one person will be the only one to see it all.


So do you think the benefits of beings blind (looking inside ourselves) outweighs the deficits (loss of humanity)?
ReplyDeleteDo you think that these people would have been able to take a look at humanity and become introspective had they not become blind?
ReplyDeleteWhy do you think it takes something like this to get people to be better to each other?
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