Blindness

Although blindness is defined as not having sight, Shakespeare, through King Lear, allows us to see that being blind is just a mental flaw as it physically. Shakespeare through King Lear, Gloucester and Albany shows us the portray ignorance and willful denial that each character petrays. The people that surround King Lear, Gloucester and Albany aren’t exactly as what they appear, but instead of choosing to see the truth they decide to see the image on the outside instead of the inside. The…

Too often in the search for the truth those who seek it are blinded by the delusion that they have found it. It is with this thought that humans as a species struggle to learn because if one believes that they have discovered the truth what is the point of learning? If one already knows the answer what is the purpose of studying? If the truth has been uncovered what is the rationale of exploration? This thought yields an environment unwilling to accept change, and those who repudiate change are…

that Oedipus himself has been the blind one, in all senses. This focus on eyesight leads us to wonder why Oedipus thought blinding himself was a fitting punishment for his past crimes. To Oedipus, he is unworthy to look upon anything because of the blindness of his actions. Oedipus blinds himself for he feels that he is unworthy of looking upon the people of Thebes. In the beginning…

The article entitled “Gorillas in our midst: sustained inattentional blindness for dynamic events” discusses the theory of inattentional blindness. At its simplest level, inattentional blindness means that we do not always see what is in front of our eyes. Accordingly, experiments were set since the 1970’s to prove this hypothesis. Scientists agree on the fact that perception is the ability to consciously identify the things we see and the changes that occur around us, but according to the…

Oedipus Rex has many different themes, motifs, and symbols, all of which can be interpreted differently. Blindness and sight are both examples of motifs used in Oedipus. Often in Theban plays, the image of clear vision is a metaphor for insight and knowledge. Both literal and metaphorical references to eyesight and insight are both found in Oedipus. The first blindness that was encountered was Oedipus. A plague had stricken Thebes and citizens gathered outside of his palace asking him to take…

fact others authors including Mark Facknitz, Polly Rose Peterson, and Collin Messer, view Bubs character as one that struggles, but eventually finds his way to a healthy transition. Although by the end of the text, Bub proves that his emotional blindness can be undone, not instantaneously, but over time, similar to the changes a cathedral makes…

Blindness is a strict term meaning to be unable to see even with glasses (Dahl). Blindness is a condition that someone can get or be born with (Dahl). There are two types of blindness that someone get from physically hurting someone's eyes, one is called “temporary blindness” and the other is called “permanent blindness” (Dahl). Temporary blindness is a scratch or small cut on the eye that inflicts pain but goes away if treated correctly (Dahl). Permanent blindness is if the small scrape gets…

In the play “Oedipus Rex” by Sophocles, blindness is more than just the literal definition, it extends to lack of self-awareness. The protagonist Oedipus suffers from metaphorical blindness and later suffers physical blindness as a result of lack of self awareness. Terisias is a significant character because his blindness is limited to only being physical, but he is self-aware and insightful to the truth. Blindness is not necessarily a disability, rather can be a defining feature in a person’s…

is a recurring motif of blindness versus sight both physically and metaphorically. Throughout the play sight is used as a metaphor for truth and insight, as well as physically because multiple characters are blind. Oedipus’s blindness of the truth, due to his excess pride of himself and insight given to him by Teresias, lead to the downfall of this tragic hero. Teresias versus Oedipus is the relationship in this story that displays how literal and metaphorical blindness work inversely. When…

In this passage the sheer size of Eckleburg’s eyes, and the fact that they are in “spectacles” gives them the quality of being watchful. However later in the passage Fitzgerald references the occultist sinking “into eternal blindness”. He then goes on to say that the eyes, although “dimmed by many paintless days” remain in their place. The way that the eyes have continued to stare out into the world long after they have been forsaken by mankind gives them the feeling of being an eternal presence…