Blindness [What Can Be Used to Mold Society?]

To an extent, fear can be used as a way to mold society. The fear of terrorism set away by the event of 9/11 made it a more fear-driven world with growing minds of over analytical, blind, ignorant and assumable citizens, fingerpointing at others. But Jose Saramago's Blindness shows the possibility of fear casting our society. An epidemic of a bright, white blindness affecting tho people, such brightness that no one would see anything nonwithstanding the white brightness itself, the original uses this metaphorically as that we bring to ignore so much of the misery that goes on some us, the awful things that are happening in front of us, the woeful aspects of life. Instead, we chose to see what we want to see. "Look here, blind man, let me describe you something, either the two of you get cover charge to where you came from, or you'll be shot, Let's go, said the wife, there's nothing to be done, they're not to blame, they're terrified and are only obeying decrees..." (Saramago 63) This scene involves the blind in the institution, specifically the doctor and his wife that came to ask a vindication for any antibiotics for a wounded man. This and other scenes throughout the novel shows the panic and fear from society and the political sympathies of this epidemic of blindness rapidly spreading with no reason.



And particularly found in this quote is the power and the ability to implant such scourge and fear in the blind internees, who are not only afraid of their own life that's hanging by a string because of this unexplainable sickness, but also the political sympathies's decisions and commands to straight shoot and kill. It is a misfortune to acknowledge a government's lack of involvement in the lives of the blind. And applying it to our lives, it is more of a misfortune. The government doesn't seem to know the importance of awareness of others to see the suffering and suffering through the eyes of the less fortunate and needy. This robs their vulnerability. And back to the quote, it is the quality of understanding... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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