Blindness, By Jose Saramago

“I cannot say whether there will be a future, what matters for the moment is to see how we can live in the present, without a future, the present serves no purpose, it’s as if it did not exist, perhaps humanity will manage to live without eyes, but then it will cease to be humanity, the result is obvious, which of us think of ourselves as being as human as we believed ourselves to be before.” said the doctor’s wife. The spreading of violence throughout the book Blindness, sexual or not, all contributes to the statement Jose Saramago is making about humanity. In this novel he stripped the world of culture, race, and class. Instead, those with little moral range and much greed for power. No matter how "good" or “bad” a person may have been considered
The blind thugs in the asylum dominated the delivery of food, they will release the food to the other wards in exchange for money and valuable items. The hoodlums then wanted the women in exchange for the food. After going back and forth the women comply against their will and the will of their husbands. They decided that getting the food and surviving is more important, they need to eat to survive and to eat they must have sex with the hoodlums. As the woman entered the ward they were surrounded by the blind hoodlums. The leader of the gang made it clear that he gets first pick and he wants the best of the group of women first, he then makes the women get in line so he can fondle and gropes them, touching all over their body. “He drew the two women
A woman from the asylum snuck into the hoodlum’s ward while they were having a feast and celebrating their victory. She took the covers off their bed and set them on fire, in fear of the hoodlums having water and extinguishing the fire she also set the mattresses on fire. The fire then quickly spread from bed to bed. “They are trying to reach the windows, unsteadily they climb on to the headrests of the beds which the fire has still not reached, but suddenly the fire is there, they slip, fall, with the intensity of the heat the window-panes begin to crack, to shatter, the fresh air comes whistling in and fans the flames, ah, yes, they are not forgotten, they cry of rage and fear, the howls of pain and agony.” The other blind inmates are running and screaming in terror, the inmates that were sleeping on floor are now being trampled. Trying to get to safety the doctor’s wife wanted to speak to the soldiers that was guarding the asylum to try to convince them to help the blind inmates. To her surprise all the soldiers were gone, as soon as she realized that they were free the right side of the asylum had collapsed and crushed some of the remaining inmates. Once they are free from the fire and being imprisoned some blind inmates stood motionless in the middle of the road, terrified and confused, not knowing where to go from