¡Mire aquí!

My blog posts are getting shorter and shorter, with the warm sunny weather and strong summer temptations.

So here's a recap, a sort of "bold, nuanced insight by comparing and contrasting the use of the motif" in the one novel and two plays that I have selected.

Invisible Man
In this novel by Ralph Ellison, the motif of sight and blindness is used to symbolize the bigger issue: racism. Whenever the idea (motif) of blindness came up in the novel is was usually in an instance where racism could also be used to describe the situation. Such as the Battle Royal scene.

King Lear
In the play by William Shakespeare, the motif of sight and blindess leads to the unfortunate demise of nearly all the main characters. The fact that both King Lear and Gloucester were blinded by both vocal and written words, led to the banishing of their loyal children and the brandishing of their unloyal children.

Galileo
As stated in my last post, in this play by Bertolt Brecht, there is a mental and physical blindness. A mental blindness to understand and accept the truth, and a physical blindness of Galileo (which really represents the mental blindness.)

By tracking the motif through all of these literary works I have come to decide that there is a mental and physical blindness in all of them. Too blind to understand, and too blind to actually see. This was all really tied up for me when I came across The Country of the Blind by H.G. Wells, those who have become blind find themselves normal and anything else not.

So in basic terms, when does not see the truth - it does not acutally exist.