Post by sofirosales on Aug 26, 2011 21:32:00 GMT -5
There are two main settings in "Blindness" by Jose Saramago. The novel starts in a normal city, it doesn't describe it much, but of what they say it is a pretty normal city and everything runs ok, there is no problem until this epidemic blindness comes and spreads all over the city infecting a big part of it. At first people lived normally there and didn't have to worry about much, but after this blindness attacks the city people live with fear of getting it too, most of them stayed at home. The second setting in this novel is the hospital which the infected people were kept so they wouldn't keep congaing the disease. This place was divided into different wards, and each ward had beds. It was an awful place, the blind people had no assistance so it was chaotic. The only person who could see there was the doctors wife, but nobody knew that so she wasnt much help. Each blind person who went out of this hospital, even if they didn't know it, were shot by the men you guarded it. There wasn't any freedom there, and people become to loose their patience and even get violent, mostly because of food. The ward were not organized and because the people were blind they couldn't see the disaster they were living in. It was a truly awful place to live.
My opinion of these settings is that there is a huge difference between the city and the hospital. the city is a free and organized place, i imagine it clean and that the people there lived well. On the other hand the hospital was a disaster, it was dirty, disorganized and a horrible place to live. I think that they should've put the blind people there because they are already suffering from the disease they have and on top of it they put them in a horrible place in which they are suffering even more.
SOFIA ROSALES
My opinion of these settings is that there is a huge difference between the city and the hospital. the city is a free and organized place, i imagine it clean and that the people there lived well. On the other hand the hospital was a disaster, it was dirty, disorganized and a horrible place to live. I think that they should've put the blind people there because they are already suffering from the disease they have and on top of it they put them in a horrible place in which they are suffering even more.
SOFIA ROSALES