Rachel Corey 2/7/13 DeStefano EN 12 The Blind Leading the Blind Blindness is an affliction that causes a person to possess the inability to see or to have the sense of sight. In the short story “Cathedral”‚ we meet an average‚ suburban husband and his wife‚ who have a troubled marriage. The husband is less than thrilled to meet his wife’s blind friend‚ Robert‚ who she has been exchanging tapes with for the past ten years. We feel sympathetic towards Robert because of his handicap‚ but as
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‘Discuss the relationship between Cordelia and Lear and compare it to the relationship between Edgar and Gloucester’. Written in 1605 but first performed in 1606 on Boxing Day in front of King James‚ ‘King Lear’ is a typical Shakespearean tragedy which focuses around the themes of family and the disruption of natural order. The play has strong Aristotelian influences as the protagonist‚ King Lear‚ enters the play in a position of great importance through external forces which are out of his control
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play that are symbolic and very important to the understanding of the play. Two of the major symbolic things in the play are blindness and binding. Both of these things have a deeper meaning than simply the literal meaning of the words used to describe them. Blindness is used as a symbol to understanding‚ and is seen as a physical blindness and well as a spiritual blindness with both having equal importance in showing that just because a person can see something does not mean that they understand
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In this play‚ Oedipus the King‚ there are any references to eyes‚ sight‚ and the lacks thereof are made throughout Oedipus the King. There are parts where characters have limited physical sight‚ such as Teiresias’s blindness‚ and there are also parts where their sight‚ in the form of perception‚ is limited. Most importantly‚ sight is used in the play as a symbol for knowledge‚ such as the how the oracles and the "seer" (16)‚ Teiresias‚ can ’see’ the truth. The play is about Oedipus’s quest for knowledge
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frees us from the painful stare of truth. A false paradise is created under the veil of knowledge that is simply not present. The theme of vision and blindness is significant in Oedipus Rex because throughout the play‚ the truth was always beyond the characters grasp‚ and without truth the actions carried out by the characters were done in blindness. Their views and behaviors are direct evidence of their inability to see what was in front of them. The consequences for these blind activities spanned
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break down the different components of blindness and vision impaired highlighting the components of the two. Blindness: When a person is legally blind their visual acuity is 20/200 or worse in the better eye with corrective lenses (20/200 means that a person at 20 feet from an eye chart can see what a person with normal vision could see at 200 feet). Visual field restriction to 20 degrees or less (tunnel vision) in the better is another component to blindness. An individual who suffers from advanced
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dissimilar advice‚ he overcame all in discovering his identity‚ discovering himself‚ but the seeming success is followed by an overwhelming action of self-mutilation. Prophesy becomes truth: he is his father’s murderer and his mother’s husband. Physical blindness keeps Oedipus from having to see the looks of other people’s faces who know the truth about him. He felt just to hurt himself for unknowingly being with his mother and killing his father and punishing himself for the terrible thinks he did. ”For
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Aravind eye care hospital in India Framework/description of the situation In 1992‚ over 30 million cases of blindness existed all over the world‚ with more than 90% in Asia and Africa. Of this‚ India had ~20mn cases of blindness with additional 2mn cases added every year‚ of which upto 80% were cataract related. With an infrastructure that could handle only 1.2 million cataract cases annually‚ the situation is expected to get worse. The rural areas of the country were particularly exposed as
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example it’s difficult to make out colors in poorly lit situations yet you can see the shape of the object. The inability to see is called blindness. Multiple things cause blindness: damage to the eyeball‚ especially the retina‚ the optic nerve and strokes. Temporary blindness can be caused by medications. There are two classifications of blindness: Congenital Blindness where you’re born blind or became blind before you were five and adventitiously blind are for people who went blind later in life‚ so
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To See or Not To See Blindness can be interpreted in many different ways. We can speak about blindness in the sense of physical blindness or emotionally blind‚ even so we can speak about being spiritually blind. In the end‚ it all comes to one thing‚ which is that blindness causes you to miss out or not see certain things depending on the subject. A blind man might say he has been blind all his life and has never seen the beauty of a rose but has only smelt the sweet fragrance of it‚ a devoted Christian
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