What Is The Central Idea Of Jorge Luis Borrges Blindness

One might think a man who is going progressively blind may feel depressed and highly upset about his condition, but for one man this is not the case. In the essay “Blindness”, written by Argentinian Jorge Luis Borges, talks about his perspective of being literally blind and talks about blindness figuratively. Through his primary audience, which is people who know little to no knowledge about being blind, and people with disabilities themselves. Borges purpose is a moving meditation on being visually impaired and to explain how being blind isn’t a misfortune, but an amazing opportunity to look at the world in a different light. The author does this by using personal anecdotes about his grandmother and father and using many allusions along

Beauty is not a subject which attracts uniformity of opinion. Each of us appears to have a different viewpoint about what is, and what is not, beautiful therefore artist see in their own way just not literally. Borges states, “We may believe that Homer never existed, but that the Greeks imagined him as blind in order to insist on the fact that poetry is, above all, music; that poetry is, above all, the lyre; that the visual can or cannot exist in a poet.” (pg. 6) Borges is talking about blindness literally and figuratively in an indirect way. Essentially, Borges is telling his audience that blindness isn’t necessarily a disability because you may still do everything you wish it just may become better due to being visually impaired. The disability heightens your other senses and makes you see the world in a different form and think differently about many things especially when you are different than other people. Therefore, the writings of those with disabilities are more superior than those without a