The Doctor's wife in Blindness Jose Saramago analysis

The doctor's wife, whose name is not revealed does not lose sight like the rest of the people but pretends to be blind. She is the protagonist in the novel. Her situation, whereby she is the only one who does not go blind makes the storyline dramatic and interesting. This reminds me of the 'Cave Analogy' by Plato where only one person is able to see the world as it is. Her role has an influence on her character and how she develops throughout the play. Several days pass and she gets tired on the unsanitary ways and situations at the asylum. The internees there keep on having conflicts and this irritates the doctor's wife. The doctor's wife feels the need of helping everyone there because she is the only one who has sight.

However, her decision seems to be in contrary to her and the doctor. Her husband tells his wife the she should think of the consequences befife helping everyone because she will end up being a slave for everyone as they will rely on her help. Saramago states that when a person begins making small compomises life loses meaning at the end as ones dignity no price (Saramago 169). They end up experience a cruel gang rape and one of them ends up dying. As a way of restoring the woman's dignity, the doctor washes the dead body with water. This incident shows how baldly the people at the asylum have deteriorated as the men have labeled the women who they know. As the leader of the hoodlum rapes one woman, the doctor's wife goes slowly behind his back and stabs him at the throat while he as he orgasm.