The husband made stereotypes abut the blind and pass judgments on Robert. The four stereotypes the husband made about the blind are the blind move slowly, never laugh, use canes, and wear dark glasses. “And his being blind bothered me” (Carver 100). From the very beginning the husband expresses negative feelings toward Robert because Robert is blind. The text goes on to say, “My idea of blindness came from the movies.
Symbolizing Sight: Knowledge vs Ignorance in Oedipus the King Oedipus, the character of focus within Sophocles’ play Oedipus the King, is subject to the greatest of ironies due to the play’s motif of sight: through metaphorical sightlessness, which is a case of ignorance, he condemns himself and uses literal blindness as his own punishment. Having been characterized within the literary work as possessing both knowledge and ignorance of his upbringing, metaphorical and literal elements of sight are constantly used to shed light on Oedipus’s experiences throughout the duration of the play. Mostly metaphorical in its usage within the literary work, the characters regularly utilize the terms of “sight” and “blindness” in order to address levels of knowledge or lack thereof as they gradually unravel the story’s underlying truth. The character of Oedipus is a man considered to have great insight and intelligence due to his success in protecting the city of Thebes from the threat of the sphinx by solving its riddle. This makes the situation even more ironic when the audience learns that Oedipus has been ignorant of the true reasons for his placement as king.
Thus, the physical blindness of Gloucester and the mental blindness of King Lear can be connected to the theme of false appearances in King Lear, with few characters behaving in a constant manner, therefore blinding the audience and each other to their true personalities. To begin, it is of importance to analyse the blindness of King Lear, Gloucester and to a lesser extent Albany, in order to find out why it is crucial to the plot of the play and the deceiving appearances of the other characters. Firstly, King Lear is the character at the centre of the play and although his actions might not be what presents this play with its deeper meaning, which is provided by intricate family relations and deceit, his initial decisions are certainly at the start of some major issues in the storyline. Moreover, they grant the audience the first vital clues about the true personalities of Goneril, Regan and Kent to name but a few. Additionally, as Curtright mentions, the decisions
In Maeterlinck’s The Blind, the theme of blindness represents a sense of insecure and fear; uncertainty of the surrounding and future; irrationality and the lack of knowledge. Due to the loss of their vision and the absence of their guide, the blinds are being depicted as lost and helpless. Throughout the play, their blindness affects them strongly and it is also the cause of the result of their strenuous and desperate situation. In contrast, blindness enhances the image of the blind grandfather in The Intruder. The grandfather is being depicted as the wisest person within his family because he could “see” or “predicts” some events that his family members who have normal vision could not.
Something such as the American dream has that tendency to extract those morals from humans, whether they are living the dream or are still aspiring to attain it, humans prove themselves unable to move beyond the past and end up in the loop of the corrupt American dream. F. Scott Fitzgerald demonstrates such extraction of morals in his novel The Great Gatsby as his characters experience blindness and immorality. The blind and immoral ways of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s characters in The Great Gatsby are a result of the unattainable and corrupt American dream. Throughout the story of The Great Gatsby many of the characters become blind in their judgments and actions as a result of trying
by Mark Haddon Christopher Boone’s (the main character and narrator of the book) interpretations of the non-autistic world in many instances throughout the book were often quite humorous despite the fact that he himself did not understand humor. Christopher’s very explanation of how he deconstructs a joke and can identify why it could be funny to someone else but not to himself is as evocative as many of his other observations. The humor joke about the accountant, the logistician and the mathematician was particularly lost with me. I just didn’t get it. As I read the book I found myself questioning my understanding of some of the very things he questioned, such as metaphors, white lies and rhetorical questions.
Euthyphro makes several attempts but none are satisfactory to Socrates. From this the argument turns to justice and piety. Piety is only a part of justice, but not all just
It is lack of knowledge that is Oedipus downfall. Oedipus is not aware that he has married and had children with his biological mother. He is in the dark to the fact that he himself has killed his own father. Oedipus is definite intelligent. It was he that correctly answered the Sphinx’s riddle.
In Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus and Seneca’s Oedipus, dramatic irony is used to demonstrate and emphasize a character's disloyalty, ignorance, and blindness. Oedipus starts out as a prosperous king at the beginning of the play but ends up torturing himself at the end of both plays. Except for the almighty Teiresias, all the characters in the plays such as Oedipus, Jocasta, Creon, the Messenger, and the Chorus know nothing about what is to come therefore their speeches contain a lot of dramatic irony. However, the most dramatic irony is brought to light within the speeches of Oedipus. Oedipus specifically states, “no special favors and no personal ties will tear the guilty party from my grasp,” (Seneca 210).
The third, unfavorable trait of Macbeths came in the form of ignorance. As other characters pressure Macbeth into making quick decisions, he does not realize how ignorant and oblivious he is being. The consequences of his actions are hardly ever even considered, for example, after he saw the dagger, “Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?” and ignorance took the best of him as he went to kill the king. After the witches spoke the four apparitions, Macbeth, being ignorant, believed that nothing