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    Night blindness also known as Nyctalopia is not a diagnosis‚ but rather a symptom of an underlying disorder. People with night blindness (also called impaired dark adaptation) see poorly in the darkness but see normally when adequate amounts of light are present. The condition does not actually involve true blindness‚ even at night. Recovery is fairly rapid when intake is reduced. Night Blindness is commoner than one can expect it to be. Causes: There are many causes of Night Blindness. Night

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    Sight vs. Blindness In the play Oedipus Rex‚ the person who truly sees is Tiresias. Although Oedipus can see in real life‚ Tiresias is the one who has insight. In episode one‚ Oedipus has a conversation with Tiresias revealing that Tiresias’ prophecies come true. Also‚ during the story‚ there is irony because Oedipus is searching for the murderer of Laius; what Oedipus does not know is that he is the killer‚ and he is only looking for himself. Tiresias sees past the lies of Oedipus’ actions and

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    OF THE FOOL IN THE FIRST 2 ACTS ALSO CONTAINS INFORMATION ON ALL OTHER ACTS Superficially‚ the Fool in Shakespeare’s King Lear serves as comic relief‚ abating the dramatic tension with his witty insults and aphorisms. The Fool’s purpose‚ however‚ is not limited to tomfoolery. Ironically‚ he is the most insightful character in the play‚ making sound observations about King Lear and human nature. The full purpose of the Fool is to stress Lear’s poor judgment‚ to contribute to the themes of appearance

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    Blind people research Blindness is a disability that comes from birth‚ but other times it comes with the years. It’s a very complicated disability that thirty nine million people around the world need to face. Many scientific researchers have found out that when people are born blind‚ their brain is capable of refining their abilities to touch or hear. We never thought about how a blind person perceives the world‚ we never imagine how a person that cant see anything‚ thinks about the world

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    The Use of Blindness in Oedipus Rex Authors often use blindness both metaphorically and literally to describe their characters. In Oedipus Rex‚ Sophocles begins the play with literally blind Thebans suffering from a plague that their metaphorically blind king has brought upon them. Oedipus‚ being the king‚ is trying to help his blind Thebans. In doing this‚ he blindly curses the murderer of the late King Laius for bringing this plague‚ not knowing that the murderer is himself. When

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    You may often get told to wear sunglasses to protect your eyes‚ but you may not know what can happen if you don’t wear them. Many people don’t realize how much damage the sun’s harsh rays really can do to their eyes‚ and sun damage to your eyes can show up immediately and later in life. Next time you plan to leave the house on a sunny day without your sunglasses‚ remember these ways you will be harming your eyes if you skip them. 1. You Can Get Sunburn on Your Corneas Now If someone told you that

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    King Lear Act I Discussion Questions Scene i 1. What is the question Lear asks his daughters before he makes the division of his kingdom final? What does he expect of his daughters? 2. What is Cordelia’s answer to Lear’s question‚ and why is Lear outraged by her response? 3. How does Kent’s reaction to Lear’s banishment of Cordelia introduce the theme of sight and insight? 4. In this first scene of the play‚ how does Shakespeare establish the

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    King Leer.

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    Human frailty is often a centre or the focus of Shakespearean dramas. King Lear by William Shakespeare is a dramatic tragedy encompassing characters who are good-natured‚ evil and mad. It highlights the nature of human beings in regard to what makes them who they are and within this‚ we see in each character a human frailty. However‚ the play gives us hope in its display of the propensity of humans to change as is seen in Lear himself and Gloucester. The play presents to us several variations of

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    Grendel's Moral Blindness

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    the Danes reflect their true nature as the story’s monsters. The Danes were extremely apathetic towards Grendel and any other outcast. They looked down on him and dismissed anyone associated with any curse‚ which can represent cultural and moral blindness. To first understand Grendel’s misunderstood actions‚ one must first understand his past to understand his behaviors. Grendel’s actions are the one of a creature abandoned by his own father

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    Gatsby vs lear

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    Both Jay Gatsby and King Lear exemplify what Edgar quoted because both characters started out with everything‚ they were both on top of the world‚ but as both stories continued on there true measure weathered away and both men became empty. Both men started to lose their sanity in different ways‚ for Lear he lost his mind after his daughters betrayed him‚ and Gatsby lost his sense of reasoning over the love he felt for daisy. Both men were blind to think that their power could not go away. Both

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