Delusion Of Life By Jorge Luis Borges Analysis

Delusion of Life “Reality is not always probable or likely” (Jorge Luis Borges). In the story, the main character seems to live in an abnormal reality. However, this quote explains that his reality may just be an illusion. Borges’ writings are about the about the brain and elliptical, which means it is meant to be hard to understand. Additionally, he uses a lot of imagery because he was left blind. In fact, he wrote “The circular ruins,” which is about a man who believes his purpose is to bring someone into existence. As said before, Borges leaves his readers questioning if the main character is sane in order to help the reader decipher the true meaning and back story. However, to accomplish this, Borges uses the characters, sense of duty, memories, and sense of superiority.
In order to fulfill his goals, only two body functions must be followed. As all body functions, most are easy to keep up with because your body does it automatically. Therefore, the character had “the sole task of sleeping and dreaming (Borges, 335).” In this man’s past, he possibly had a tiring job. However, the man felt the urge to do something very specific within the dream. Similar to the task, the goal was urological. “He wanted to dream a man… impose him on reality (Borges, 335).” Therefore, the end goal was to take a dream and make it a part of existence. In contrast to the clear trend of urological tasks, the person chosen to exist is not random. The main character was supposed to pick said person. In other words, “he was seeking a soul worthy of existing in the universe (Borges, 335).” In a way, he assumed he had god-like powers. This sense of duty must have must have relation to his previous