Posted: September 13th, 2017

Blindness, Insight, Madness

By what standard, accordingly, can a character———-or even a whole work of drama.
literature, political science, or psychology———be considered blind or unreasonable? ls there any purpose, meaning, or rhyme to a state of unreason, or is madness (or blindness) ultimately to be seen as a terribly deplorable and incomprehensible condition? Can both alternatives be true? Why, ultimately,does a given author highlight blind decisions, mad language or irrational leaps in a given text? How might these authors see the relation between blindness and insight in a similar light, and how might their perspectives (and perhaps their characters’ perspectives on their
own visions)‘be different? Make an argument combining the three stories of The Oresteia, Oedipus Tyrranus, and The Time Machine.