The Doctor's Wife

The paperhanger’s physical appearance first draws the doctor’s wife to him. She studies his muscled physique and golden hair before deciding to berate him about the price per roll (Gay 72). Unlike the construction workers, the paperhanger does not look for her approval or treat her as if she were in a higher social class. The paperhanger strives for the power and control the doctor’s wife has. Working for her and obeying her does nothing to help him achieve that status. For example, after she complains

unfortunate citizens who fall ill to the white blindness find themselve quarantined in an abandoned mental hospital where havoc inevitably ensues. A significant character that demonstrates the notion that you are defined by your actions is the doctor’s wife as she was originally a very timid and kind character who then endured an atrocious situation and became very malicious. Whereas the girl with the dark glasses is an individual who was first presented as extremely selfish but later developed into

Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife”, “The young Indian stopped and blew out his lantern and they all walked on along the road” (91). This narrative standpoint could have came from Ernest’s own experiences with racism in his life since he too was not considered purely white. The portrayal of the Indian characters shows a very big conflict and the differences in the two races. The language and way of life of the Indians helps give two perspectives. In the “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife” power is used

the majority of it in order to teach a lesson to his people, and restart civilization. He chooses one man and his family to survive and lead the human race into its new existence. This is strikingly similar to the Saramago’s choice in having the Doctor’s wife presumably being the only non-blind person left, helping everyone, consistently leading her large group towards safety and survival. At a certain point, the narrator even describes, “Blindness was spreading, not like a sudden tide flooding everything

In Blindness, by José Saramago, victims of an epidemic of sudden blindness are quarantined together in an abandoned mental hospital. In this hospital, the blindness reveals the actions that people take when nobody is watching them because the internees are only aware of their own actions since they are unable to monitor and judge what others do. Also, as more blind internees join the hospital, the internees and the hospital become increasingly dirty. The filth of the hospital along with the poor

deserted their mansion. One night, the girl’s mother decided to return to the mansion and look for her daughter. It is here where she encounters the paperhanger once more. During this scene, the mother offers to pay him to drive her into the woods and look for her daughter. He replied, “I wouldn’t charge anybody anything to search for a child’s body. But she’s not in the woods. Nothing could have stayed hidden, the way these woods were searched (165).” By offering to help the child’s mother the paperhanger

“The Pandorica Opens” is an episode where the Doctor finds out about a painting of his spaceship that blows up. The painting contains coordinates of a time and place. The coordinates lead to the Stonehenge in 2 A.D. The romans play a part as the Doctor’s protectors against the aliens who want the Pandorica for themselves. The Pandorica sounds similar to Pandora’s Box, which the character Amy Pond references. She turns out to be correct as the Pandorica is Pandora’s Box, but in modern time. It was

novel. At first there is the “doctor’s regime”, which is democratic but ultimately inefficient as the attendees must waste time by making decisions diplomatically. But as seen in part 8, as more and more of the members begin to lose their sight, diplomacy falls to the side. (Gradesaver.com). The Ward becomes more and more hopeless as the facility reaches maximum capacity and news from the outside world stops due to the radio broadcaster’s sight being

In Blindness, Saramago presents a society in which most of the people go blind, seeing only milky whiteness, and lose all societal order. Saramago accomplishes to bring to light what a modern Gotterdammerug, or twilight of gods, would entail in this thought experiment. Throughout the novel, the plague of blindness demonstrates the gradual loss of humanity. Plus, the physical blindness is not the only blindness explored in this reflection on human nature and the implications of pseudo-apocalyptic

group. When the doctor’s wife was forced to have intercourse, she was traumatized, and knew that she needed to find a way to end the catastrophe. In order to do this, she decided to kill the leader of the group, and stabbed him in the throat with a pair of scissors. The author describes the wife at that moment by writing, “she had blood on her hands and clothes…but she knew that if it were necessary, she would kill again” (Saramago, 192). This quote shows the readers how much the wife has changed because