The novel Blindness The sinners we talked about in our past novels and in the present novel Blindness have been empathetically assigned the trait of ignorance. Thus providing the root of sin and degradation of lives, in relation to the treatment of people in the short story Somni in the novel Cloud Atlas. Focusing on Blindness, greedy people are treated horribly by criminals with a "gnawing conscience" (18). This quality of man is a result of the way humans sometimes prefer short-term luxuries over long-term consequences. This may be related to the blind man's car thief at the beginning of the novel. So Saramago evidently uses greed as the fuel of ignorance to corrupt reason in this novel and diagnoses the “sensual appetite” (171) of humans as a natural trait. The desperation of some people described in this novel as thieves, or careless madmen who trampled on the blind, is based on a psychological attempt to "escape their black destiny" and on the reassurance of future hope (112). The corruption of reason may also result from the development of desperation pursued in the novels Life of Pi and Blindness. Referencing Life of Pi, Pi's isolation appears to have a psychological effect, driving him to eat feces. This sense of indignation is also described in Blindness, considering that a portion of the blind were freed at any given time. This was also due to a lack of respect for themselves and everyone else. The logic that some blind people possess is that "the blind have nothing [that] they can call [they are] own"... middle of paper... "Papa John's" greed for the degradation of lives. In Luisa Rey's story, money surpasses the value of everything else. The military's motivations in Blindness also illustrate an unhealthy dignity. One of the sergeants even intuits that "when the beast dies, the poison dies with it" (84). This also seems to be the reason that triggers the cruelty of all the other soldiers. The fear of "poison" actually changes the value of life. This thesis explains the killing of all the innocent blind prisoners who approached the gate, or those who acted in any other way to instill that fear in the soldiers. The disorganization of the military in the novel highlights how neglectful they were of the "low quality" society the soldiers treated them in. The government's treatment shows that the quality of human beings is related to human dignity.