A dystopian narrative in Saramago's blindness

Abstract

In this paper, the author analyses the dystopian narrative in Saramago's novel Blindness. The narrative in the novel shapes ideologies and identities of the characters and illustrates the dystopian outcome of white blindness, a mysterious disease known among the characters of the novel as the "white evil". Also, in this paper, the author analyses the disintegration of the social order as well as dehumanization in the modern world, caused by the epidemic of white blindness, since the white blindness epidemic inexplicably spreads, society disintegrates, and individuals, in the struggle for survival, openly project animalistic features. However, there still remain those individuals who make decisions that show altruistic sacrifice for the benefit of the others. The paper uses descriptive method and a text analysis method. The aim of this paper is to analyze the dystopian narrative in Saramago's Blindness.

Keywords

• dystopian narrative
• jose saramago
• blindness
• dehumanization
• society