Blindness

Question Change blindness is defined by Matlin as the failure to detect a change in an object or a scene and inattentional blindness is the failure to notice an unexpected and completely visible stimuli while focusing attention on other aspects in a scene (Matlin, 48). Simons and Chabris address the role similarity has between the unexpected and attended events with regard to detection (1999). Simons and Chabris are also looking at the frequency of strange or unusual instances being detected…

who have the capability to see colour; tend to perceive colours as a part of the everyday norm –unlike some who are incapable to note down the kinds of the colours that they see. Dalton, a chemist, has called this “colour deficiency” or “colour blindness” due to a study conducted of a man who has lost the ability…

skin color or background’. After learning about color blindness, and realizing that I was apart of it, I now know that this is the wrong way to view humans. Color blindness may seem like a good idea, and the intention might be of good intent; it does more than ‘blind’ you from color. I used to look at people and think that I wouldn’t be racist if I ignored, or looked past their color. Color blindness is not progress, it’s separation. Color blindness separates the person being looked at with…

In the play “Oedipus the King” written by Sophocles, blindness portrays a significant theme in the play. Throughout the play Oedipus is seeking clarity on who killed the previous king, Lauis, and in searching for the killer he finds his own demise. Oedipus can literally see, unlike the blind prophet Teiresias, but lacks the ability to “see” the reality of his actions. To his own dismay, Oedipus learns that he accidentally killed his father, married his mother, and eventually blinds himself as a…

When looking at a public figure or hero, we usually see that person as being strong physically and mentally. They can understand what is going on and can sense if something is wrong and if it can be fixed. On the other hand, when someone is figuratively blind, they are looked as being weak or confused. That they don’t see fully what is happening in front of them and due to this they don’t have power; This type of thinking is present is both stories like books, and in everyday society. Since the…

Prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness affects 2% of the world’s population, which means 150 million people suffer with this on a daily basis. This disorder inhibits people from recognizing the faces of those around them including family members. Prosopagnosia wasn’t really discovered or heavily studied until 1947, by Joachim Bodamer. There are two main types of prosopagnosia, acquired and developmental. Though often not heard of prosopagnosia has been the struggle of protagonists in…

for knowledge. Teiresias can see the truth despite being physically blind. When Teiresias reveals that the true murder of Laios is Oedipus, Oedipus rages and exclaims, “You sightless, witless, senseless, mad old man.” (21) He attacks Teiresias’s blindness and his skill at telling prophecies. It is ironic that Oedipus, a man who can see is attacking Teiresias, a blinded seer because Teiresias can see the truth…

a unit. The allusion to King Lear in ‘ripeness is plainly all’ suggests parallels between Lear and Cordelia, and the persona and her father. This motif of Lear is repeated later on with ‘be your tears wet’, referring to literal and metaphorical blindness. The rhetorical question of ‘who can be what you were?’ symbolises her fathers irreplaceability in her life and the importance he holds to her. Harwood uses frail imagery when referring to her father as her ‘stick-thin comforter’, reinforcing…

to persons at risk of developing the disease hence, the health and economic burden of glaucoma is continuously increasing. The Nigerian National Blindness and Visual impairment Survey has shown that glaucoma is the most prevalent cause of blindness and has emphasized the need for increasing glaucoma awareness and patient education in reducing blindness from this disease (Abdu 2013). In addition, (Prior et al. 2013) suggested that it is appropriate to design targeted interventions to change…

This tragedy is undoubtedly the result of King Lear and Gloucester’s pride and blindness. Taking the latter into consideration first, we begin to see King Lear’s pride affecting his judgement in the first scene when he foolishly decides to separate land depending on his daughters’ love for him: “Which of you shall we say doth love us most, that we our largest bounty may extend…” (1.1.56-57) Immediately, we can see his imprudent approach in making such an important decision for Britain’s future.…