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Although Nobel winner Jose Saramago uses blindness as a metaphor in his best-known work, I believe that if a similar disaster occurs, all of the things described in the book will be experienced. I wanted to do a book review because I thought it was an important book.
Blindness
While people continue to their daily lives in a normal way, a disease with no scientific explanation begins to spread rapidly: Blindness!
With this disease, which is separated from normal blindness with its symptoms, world is seen in white, not in black. The "white catastrophe" in which the authorities have trouble finding a solution leads to panic in the public. It is decided to quarantine these sick people in an old mental hospital in order to prevent this panic.
In order to prevent further spread of the disease, people who are not allowed to contact outside are exposed to many inhuman treatment and even be seen as creatures that must die.
Inside, the situation is even worse. People who lost their sights begin to act with their basic impulses. After blindness occures and communal living collapses, a group of people take the power and create a new authority build a new order based on exploitting others. - Just like those who took the power and create a state-like authority when the laws of nature was prevailed.
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| Blindness ( 2008) |
As a Conclusion
In fact, our eyes have other functions than vision. We have two things that make us superior to animals: our minds and our eyes. In a world where everyone is blind, the existing social institutions collapse and the world is dominated by anarchy. The goodness and the kindness within the blind people begin to fade.
With the blindness metaphor, the author describes the blind people who have a sight but can't see. In a world where we lose a part of humanity every day, many of us trying to preserve the good within us. Is it a blessing to see around the blinds, or is it a punishment for witnessing the disappearance of humanity?
Emel