This feature makes the text suitable to be read in terms of Foucault's views on power relations and in particular, panopticism. 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. 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. The contagion, in fact, is related to the individuals' dependence upon the social constraints and working of power. This unfavorable homogenization is represented in Blindness through a white blindness that obliterates the individuals' physical interaction with the world. "This is a an important book, one that is unafraid to face all of the horror of the century.-José Saramago, the Portuguese writer, expresses in the novel Blindness (1995) the fear of dehumanization in the contemporary globalized world.
A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation, Blindness has swept the reading public with its powerful portrayal of our worst appetites and weaknesses-and humanity's ultimately exhilarating spirit. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing.
Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women.
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