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Post by ralbornozr on Aug 28, 2010 14:56:48 GMT -5
In Blindness, by Jose Saramago, the doctor’s wife is the character that caught my attention. Her role in the novel is the most important, since she is the only one not infected by the mysterious ‘white blindness’. This brave woman, on her forties, takes responsibility over her husband and the other people living in the same asylum. She demonstrates her compassion against the infected helping them survive and overcome the problems the epidemic brings. The doctor’s wife has no fear of the sickness, she knows that it can take over her any time and still manages to help the rest fight against it. I admire her strength and determination, because she keeps on going even when she reaches a time were exhaustion makes her desire to become blind as well. The protagonist makes the reader realize how different situations build up a character, how people react against problems and learn to overcome them.
rafaela albornoz
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Post by ricardoperez on Aug 28, 2010 17:49:00 GMT -5
The character I liked the most on Saramago's novel is the doctor's wife. I liked her in this tragic novel because she being the only immune person helps everyone to live with their new disability. She has an important personality who makes her be the leader of the society. She is a very brave woman who fights against all the problems she is getting.
I think that the doctor's wife is the most important character because she is the leader of all this people with this weird epidemic. I think she is important because all these people needed someone to lay on and they needed a leader to help them live better.
I liked her personality of helping her society. She knows that any minute she could get the same white blindness but until she doesn't get it she helps. She could go away and life her life without the risk of getting blind. She takes the responsibility of being the peoples eyes and she is really optimistic, fearless and she is a very honest, which makes her so special for everyone. She is loved by everyone because all the positive actions she is doing t help people overcome and live the life they always had.
Ricardo Perez
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Post by mpbravo on Aug 29, 2010 13:00:15 GMT -5
The character I like the most was the doctor’s wife. This woman is a fearless human being who makes her unique; her bravery and kindness makes her the perfect one to be the only one that can see and realize what was going on. She needed to struggle and face so many problems, that each time she was being stronger inside and out. One of these problems was to be the only one that can see, so she knew she was the only one that could stop the chaos inside the hospital. She believes in God, so this led her to create faith to all the people that surround her and to do not stop fighting for what they want to achieve. She created everything thinking first in blind people and then for herself. Trying to maintain each person there happy and alive the most possible she could. Just woman can save woman and she was the savior who stop the exchange of women that prostitute themselves and sacrificed their bodies for food inside the wards. Drastically she had to expose herself in danger for the benefit of all, like for example to take food and feed many hungry mouths or talk with the soldiers for something they were missing or they needed. She was a great leader and I admire this clever and gentle woman that without her inside the hospital everything would be impossible and I like a lot that she never quit even when the story come to its worst part. She is the definition of a good leader which was the only one that respected people as how they are, spread faith over this crisis, and was a kindly woman who think always for the welfare of all and not by herself which any other person could done. I think that the author created this character which is the only one that can see, for not just the blinds but also the reader could have faith that in any moment everyone would gain their sight. Also for people could have a secret guide who help everyone inside there and led them the best she could.
Maria Paula Bravo
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Post by vlopez on Aug 29, 2010 15:06:59 GMT -5
The character that I like the most in the novel is the Doctor's Wife because he was near his husband at all times and never left him alone even though his husband disappointed her in some point of the novel. She was always taking care of this group of blind people that started being strangers and ended as a family because of all the circumstances they had to go through. She is a clear example of kindness and maturity because she took care of that entire people and saved their life. I think her inner straight helped her a lot during the novel because she never gave up and trusted everything was going to be alright and that’s how it ended up being. I will response to the character as a responsible and incredible person that taught sympathy and many other important values to the readers and people around. He had to sacrifice many things and even murder by necessity, she was very brave and faith was always present during her adventure.
Valentina López
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Post by Estefania Jervis on Aug 29, 2010 16:18:34 GMT -5
The book Blindness if full of characters that have specific jobs within the story. The doctor can be seen as a leader, who always helps and want the best and equality for everyone. The women with the sun glasses can be seen as someone who changes a lot during the story, because at the beginning she is seen as a selfish person but as time pass, she began to help people as the little boy, guiding him and helping him and she transform to a beautiful and caring person. The doctor’s wife is also a very important character which has a quality that no one else has in the book, immunity to blindness. She has a very caring and forgiving heart. With an approximate age of 40 or 50 years, we can see that she is sensitive to others feelings, intelligent and a leader who does everything for the well being of the rest of the group she lives with that has became her family.
Even though all of this is very admirable characters; in my personal opinion, my favorite character is the men with the black eye patch. First of all the age he has demonstrate that he has live enough and know what is right and wrong. He always does the right thing for example when the blind men went into the doctor’s office and the kid’s mother started to claim that it was her turn and the men with the back eye patch said, “Let the poor man go ahead, he’s in a much worse state than we are.” (pg.13) Here we can see the solidarity of this character and how he worries about the rest as well as when they are in the medical center and he starts telling the recent news he has heard on the radio. This characters show that he is very thankful for all his got by the way he says it when they arrive to the doctor’s home. It is a character that is different from the rest because he gets to a moment when he says that he would like to be blind for the rest of his life because for him, nothing has been better. I believe he has a personality that we all should try to follow, always caring, compassionate, thankful for what we got and most of all realistic.
Estefania Jervis Dávalos
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Post by vperez on Aug 29, 2010 17:18:08 GMT -5
The character I liked the most in the novel was the doctor’s wife. This lady is the only one immune to the epidemic happening where everyone gets blind. When her husband gets blind he is sent to the mental hospital and she goes with him too, that’s the first act of bravery I notice. She leaves everything and wants to go with him wherever he goes. When she is in the asylum she takes care of everyone there, when she could only take care of her husband and her only welfare she doesn’t. She is nice to everyone in the hospital and that’s why everyone likes her. The doctor’s wife makes sure everyone gets to eat; she tries to organize the place where everyone’s living and the thing I liked the most is that she doesn’t take advantage of anyone only because she can see. She helps everyone with nothing in exchange, when she could steel form them or so she never does. She is brave, intelligent and very generous. My response to her would be that she is an example to follow, how she maintained calmness seeing all this disaster, her bravery when dealing with the bad men who took advantage and treated them badly and her big heart and generosity when helping all the blind. vperez
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Post by franciscaalarcon on Aug 29, 2010 17:30:30 GMT -5
This novel is composed by interesting characters but the one that stands out the most in my opinion is the doctor’s wife. She is the main character and my favorite one. When they took his husband to the mental hospital because he was infected she decided to go with him taking the huge risk of getting the disease. This demonstrates courage and braveness. She faked blindness and by this she had the advantage to only help her husband and seek for her own good but she is kind and generous enough to try to help everyone. I think it would be terrifying to be in her position because she saw how everyone suffered, the horrible place they lived in, the dead people and all the sadness. She didn't freak out even if she couldn’t do much about it. This woman had a great heart and is very comprehensive. When his husband slept with the lady of the dark glasses she was calmed even though she was really hurt. I think she is a very intelligent person that could manage things well without entering in panic. She is a strong women that never gave up. She symbolizes hope in the novel.
Francisca Alarcon
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Post by claudiaricaurte on Aug 29, 2010 19:02:23 GMT -5
In the novel "Blindness" the author Saramago explains how everyone goes blind due to an epidemic that is clearly contagious, except one person who for some reason is immune to this virus, the doctor’s wife. This is one of the most interesting characters from the novel, since it makes us wonder why she is the only person who is immune to this virus. Saramago never explains the reason for her immunity, but still she is the character who gives everyone else who does go blind, hopes of seeing again. The doctor’s wife is the most important character in my point of view, because she is the only one that is capable of telling the story, since she is the only one that can describe the horrific things that are going on during the epidemic. Throughout the story she demonstrates what a carrying and compassionate women she is, first when pretending to be blind only to be with her husband in the state of blindness, risking herself of in infection. Later when helping the blind, since she was the only one that could.
Claudia Ricaurte
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Post by mjcevallos on Aug 29, 2010 20:10:24 GMT -5
In my point of view there is one character that makes more interesting the novel, this character is the doctor’s wife. During the novel she becomes different from everybody else and that´s why she can be considered interesting and the character that I liked the most. Also she is the most important character in the novel and the only one that witnesses everything and knows what is happening. She is the only one who becomes immune to this “white blindness” that is attacking everyone. She is married to an ophthalmologist who becomes blind immediately when he is checking the first person who gets the white blindness. She makes everyone think that she is also blind so she can go with his husband to the mental hospital. While she is in the hospital she feels responsible for the ones that were there because she was the only one that can afford to do something. She is a woman that cares more about the rest than about her. She rather not eat so others can eat. What I liked about her was that she never let herself down and was always positive, she was finding ways to make the blind people life’s easier and finding ways to escape from the hospital. She hopes that one day the illness would stop or that they would find a cure. She never did these things to get something back.
In my response to her is that I think she is a caring, intelligent, generous and humble woman that many people would like to be like her. I admire her because even do conditions in the metal hospital weren’t easy she still was positive and help in many ways to the blind ones. She risked his life for the welfare of others. I admire her intentions because she wasn’t blind but she was still worried about the rest.
By: Maria Jose Cevallos 11th D
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Post by mjcarrera on Aug 29, 2010 20:46:06 GMT -5
The doctor´s wife is the character I liked the most in the book Blindness by Jose Saramago. She is the main and most important character because for an estrange reason that nobody knows she is the only one immune to the “white blindness”. The doctor´s wife feels responsible of taking care and helping the blind people who are isolated in the asylum. In order to help, protect and support his husband who got blind she pretends to be blind too. She never tells the blind people that she could see, that way she could help them and maintain order. She expects to become blind, but never frights to lose her vision. In the whole book she always demonstrates her willing to help the people who were infected to survive, she risks herself, supports them and she never loses hope. Since she is the only one that can see, she has very hard work to do by herself but she tries to assist everyone and tries to make their lives better. The doctor´s wife is a woman full of kindness, she always shows bravery in risky and dangerous moments. She is understanding, encouraging, intelligent and takes correct decisions in the right moments. My response to the doctor´s wife is that she is a very helpful, courageous and generous woman who always wants the best for the blind people, never asks something in return and always believes in better days. I admire how she creates order and demonstrates she always wants the best for the rest of people by sacrificing herself and her own needs. Maria Jose Carrera
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Post by emilianaranjo on Aug 29, 2010 21:05:17 GMT -5
Blindness is a novel based on a bizarre epidemic of white blindness which everyone is affected except for a woman. Throughout the book this woman becomes my favorite character do to her responsibility and the sincere human feelings that she demonstrate towards the blind population. She is the wife of an ophthalmologist which both are the main characters of the story. I specifically like the women character because of the love and devotion that she delivers to the poor people that have been affected with the epidemic. She has such a huge love to her husband that she pretends to be blind and go through quarantine just to be together with him. That is why I respect this women so much, the responsibility she takes, not being selfish which gives me hopes that women are the pillar of life, the ones that can keep everything together and in right track. Referring to the physical description of this character as the book says in pg. 45 she seem to be old, because they describe her husband old do to his wrinkled forehead and tight mouth, so I assumed she must be the same.
Emilia Naranjo
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Post by franciscaalarcon on Aug 29, 2010 21:39:41 GMT -5
This novel is composed by interesting characters but the one that stands out the most in my opinion is the doctor’s wife. She is the main character and my favorite one. When they took his husband to the mental hospital because he was infected she decided to go with him taking the huge risk of getting the disease. This demonstrates courage and braveness. She fakes blindness and by this she had the advantage to only help her husband and seek for her own good but she is kind and generous enough to try to help everyone. I think it would be terrifying to be in her position because she saw how everyone suffered and the place they lived in and everything and couldn’t do much about it. This woman had a great heart and is very comprehensive. When his husband slept with the lady of the dark glasses she was calmed even though she was really hurt. I think she is a very intelligent person that could manage things well without entering in panic. She symbolizes hope in the novel.
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Post by carolina on Aug 29, 2010 21:40:27 GMT -5
The character I like the most is the main character, doctor`s wife, because she is immune to blindness so the story evolves around her and because of her immunity she can see everything that is happening so the reader can know and understand better what is happening. This important characteristic that she has also helps us to know more about her. I like that she is a girl and that she is very brave because she fake her own blindness just to be with her husband and that shows that she loves him a lot. She was very kind with the people in the mental hospital and always had a positive attitude and thats what made her a great leader and since she was the only one that could see she was responsible for all the people there, it didn´t matter if she wasn´t able to eat as long as they did. And eventhough she had to suffer many things she was always fighting. I think that the author created this character immune to blindness so that the reader can have more information and so that this character could find a solution.
My response is that you are a special person with a gift given to you to help other people. You are wise, strong and brave with unconditional love for your husband.
Carolina De Sucre
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Post by Melissa Vorbeck on Aug 29, 2010 23:15:54 GMT -5
The character I liked the most in Blindness by Jose Saramago is the doctor’s wife. In my opinion, she plays the most important role in this novel. I like her the most because she puts everyone else before herself. She constantly thinks about her husband and new friends instead of how she can get out of the mental hospital. She could’ve just taken the easy way out of everything and sat helpless in the world, or could have even killed herself, but she chose to keep fighting for something. This shows that she is a strong, independent woman.
The doctor’s wife tends to think ahead, so she is prepared for the worst to come, whether it’s her time to enter the epidemic, or whether she has to face death being someone else’s or her own. This character is smart and strong. She chooses to help others instead of being selfish and thinking only about herself.
According to the end of the novel, she was a pretty woman. The doctor’s wife apparently does not like to be the only person who can see, even though she sucks it up and continues to help all that she can. She once said: “you do not know, you cannot know, what it means to have eyes in a world in which everyone else is blind, I am not a queen, no, I am simply the one who was born to see this horror, you can feel it, I both feel and see it.” (page 276) At the beginning of the book, she was a strong woman and you could almost sense how she changed throughout this novel.
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Post by alegriabaus on Sept 5, 2010 10:18:31 GMT -5
In my opinion, the blindness epidemic means the ignorance this society lives in. This is why my favorite character is the doctor's wife. I like her, because she is a really smart and strong woman. She denmostrates this, because she went blind after living a very long and horrible time between all this people. One of the events I liked the most, and were she proves to be very smart and strong, is when she sees the doctor with the girl with the dark glasses and she forgives them both. I like this character also, because she os thhe one who basically takes reposibility in this awfull place they all have to live in. But what I like the most of her, is the fact that just for love to her husband, she pretends to be blind as well, and voluntarly goes to live in there, for him. At the end, she does gets infected by the "ignorance", but this happend after she helped a lot of people and specially her unfaithfull husband. Alegria Baus
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