"That's the way we are made, half indifference, half evilness", this phrase of the book resume the thought of José Saramago when he brote 'Blindness'. José Saramago is a Portuguese author who wins the nobel price of literature in 1998, Blindness in one of his most famous novels.
The novel talks about the darkness inside the human being. The story begins when an unexplained mass of epidemic blindness impact the whole world. Most of the people fall in and become blind, and when that's happens, people shows their ugly face. The society is lost in chaos with the disorder, looting, robbery and even worst with rapes and murders.
The principal characters are a doctor with a group of pacients, they try to survive in this environment. But the group has an advantage from the rest, becouse one of they, the wife of the doctor, is the only person who can see everything whats happens.
The thesis of Saramago focus in the moral of the humans. When nobody see whats happens there is no one to judge you, no one to control, and people lost in crime. For Saramago there are a evil essence inside all of us.
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