摘要：José Saramago, the Portuguese writer, expresses in the novel Blindness (1995) the fear of dehumanization in the contemporary globalized world. This unfavorable homogenization is represented in Blindness through a white blindness that obliterates the individuals’ physical interaction with the world. The contagion, in fact, is related to the individuals’ dependence upon the social constraints and working of power. It is evident in the nature of the relationships between the characters and the authorities and also in the interaction of the citizens with each other. Thus, Blindness can be read as a text demonstrating how subjection of the modern man to the power relations can bring about a real panoptical society. This feature makes the text suitable to be read in terms of Foucault’s views on power relations and in particular, panopticism. As a result, this study attempts to investigate how Blindness society is in nature a Panopticon in which power relations are present in the context of all relationships.
其他摘要：José Saramago, the Portuguese writer, expresses in the novel Blindness (1995) the fear of dehumanization in the contemporary globalized world. This unfavorable homogenization is represented in Blindness through a white blindness that obliterates the individuals’ physical interaction with the world. The contagion, in fact, is related to the individuals’ dependence upon the social constraints and working of power. It is evident in the nature of the relationships between the characters and the authorities and also in the interaction of the citizens with each other. Thus, Blindness can be read as a text demonstrating how subjection of the modern man to the power relations can bring about a real panoptical society. This feature makes the text suitable to be read in terms of Foucault’s views on power relations and in particular, panopticism. As a result, this study attempts to investigate how Blindness society is in nature a Panopticon in which power relations are present in the context of all relationships.
