Molding of Society in Saramagos Blindness Essay -- Jose Saramago

To an extent, fear can be used as a way to mold society. The fear of terrorism set out by the event of 9/11 made it a more fear-driven world with growing minds of over analytical, blind, ignorant and assumable citizens, finger-pointing at others. But Jose Saramagos Blindness shows the mishap of fear molding our society. An epidemic of a bright, clean-living blindness affecting all people, such brightness that no one would see anything but the washrag brightness itself, the novel uses this metaphorically as that we take in to ignore so much of the misery that goes on around us, the awful things that ar happening in front of us, the despicable aspects of life. Instead, we chose to see what we want to see. wait here, blind man, let me tell you something, either the two of you get back to where you came from, or youll be shot, Lets go, say the wife, theres nothing to be done, theyre not to blame, theyre terrified and are merely obeying orders... (Saramago 63) This scene involves the blind in the institution, specifically the doctor and his wife that came to ask a oppose for any antibiotics for a wounded man. This and other scenes throughout the novel shows the panic and fear from society and the government of this epidemic of blindness rapidly spreading with no reason. And particularly found in this quote is the top executive and the ability to implant such threat and fear in the blind internees, who are not only afraid of their own life thats hanging by a string because of th... Molding of Society in Saramagos Blindness Essay -- Jose Saramago To an extent, fear can be used as a way to mold society. The fear of terrorism set out by the event of 9/11 made it a more fear-driven world with growing minds of over analytical, blind, ignorant and assumable citizens, finger-pointing at others. But Jose Saramagos Blindness shows the possibility of fear molding our society. An epidemic of a bright, white blindness affecting all people, such brightn ess that no one would see anything but the white brightness itself, the novel uses this metaphorically as that we choose to ignore so much of the misery that goes on around us, the awful things that are happening in front of us, the despicable aspects of life. Instead, we chose to see what we want to see. Look here, blind man, let me tell you something, either the two of you get back to where you came from, or youll be shot, Lets go, said the wife, theres nothing to be done, theyre not to blame, theyre terrified and are only obeying orders... (Saramago 63) This scene involves the blind in the institution, specifically the doctor and his wife that came to ask a guard for any antibiotics for a wounded man. This and other scenes throughout the novel shows the panic and fear from society and the government 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 threat and fear in the blind internee s, who are not only afraid of their own life thats hanging by a string because of th...