Essay over blindness
(José Saramago)
In a city somewhere, a man recently out of an ophthalmologist, is strangely attacked by blindness, while in a street signal. Not any kind of blindness - a white blindness. Immediately after that, numerous other people begin suffering of the same disease and a white blindness epidemic spreads through the city. Young or old, men and women become infected. The rulers, fearful, rule that every blind person should be confined immediately. A persecution begins and, the infected, are taken to an abandoned place, an ancient sanatorium, segregated, imprisoned in numerous wings of what seemed a real concentration camp. Among them there was a woman, apparently the only one that hadn't become blind. The reason why she was there - to be with her husband, but everyone else in the place thought of her as being in the same situation. There were social divisions, castes, among those who, according to the rulers, would be kept in quarantine until a cure for the "white disease" would be found. While the authorities preferred not to care about what was going on inside those walls, terrors were taking place. Groups of hooligans were getting away with the worst atrocities, intimidating, stealing provisions, wrapping women... Everyday more people were persecuted and taken there. The blind suffered, loved and finally, even adapted to the routine. The woman, who'd never been blind, was wrapped in front of her husband, who couldn't see but could hear. To avenge herself, she murdered the man who'd done her wrong, and was the leader of the criminals. The white blindness, similar to the plague, was disseminating without anyone knowing why, or how. In prison, life was becoming more and more like a jungle. People behaving like animals. All of the sudden, in the same way that it came, the blindness went away, leaving behind a trail of blood and misery. Those who survived went on living their lives, never forgetting the barbarities they'd gone through.
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