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A 10 page essay that is made-up of 3 separate essays on 3 of Saramago's novels: Blindness, All the Names & The Cave. No additional sources cited.
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everyone went blind? The source of the blindness is never explained or really explored, although Saramago implies that the cause is spiritual rather than physical by making a "white" blindness,
that is, the victims see white instead of black. The point that the author focuses on is how the blindness affects its victims; how it "level" the playing field, reducing
individuals to their essence and causing them to consider what is and is not important. In short, Saramago questions whether people, having lost the controlling gaze of others can manage
to preserve the laws that owe their origin to communal gaze, that is, to what others think of us. This purpose is what motivates Saramago in creating this principal
characters. He begins with a man who is suddenly struck blind while in traffic. Initially, the first reaction of those around him is to react sympathetically. One of these bystanders
offers to drive the man home, but then steals his car. From exposure to the blind driver, the car thief also goes blind, as does an ophthalmologist that the blind
driver consults. As authorities catch on to the seemingly contagious nature of the blindness, they isolate victims in an abandoned building that once housed mental patients. Soldiers are stationed to
make sure that isolation is maintained from the rest of the city. However, the controlling gaze of the soldiers is also negated because they, also, slowly become blind. The
doctors wife is the only character who retains her sight. She fakes blindness so that she will be allowed to accompany her husband into the asylum. Saramago uses the enclosed
environment of the asylum not simply to examine what the doctor terms the "harsh, cruel, implacable kingdom of the blind" (Blindness 133), but also to critique middle class values in
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