Borges’ Blindness & Dillard’s Seeing

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English

 

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Shannon C

 

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July 11, 2012

 

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Although both writers portray blindness in a positive light, each writer uses his disability to enhance his lives differently. Borges depicts his loss of sight as an opportunity to learn new things about life and himself, while Dillard uses her blindness as a way to better appreciate nature. Jorge Luis Borges gives his perspective as a blind man who orginally could see but lost his sight due to an inherited disease...
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Borges positive attitude toward his blindness allowed him to explore different ideas he wouldn’t have considered with his sight. He states that "since I have lost the beloved world of appearance, I must create something else" (2). For Jorge, this "something else" was to learn about different literatures...
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