Introduction The catalyst for the end of the world according to Blindness is an epidemic of blindness. This contagious infection differs from the common pandemic plague in apocalyptic literature. Unlike the bubonic plague in Camus’s La Peste, blindness does not kill the infected. It merely cripples. Nevertheless, the result of this defect is still horrific. When blindness begins to spread, there is a pandemonium of men trying to avoid the contaminated and of men trying to cope with not seeing. In order to prevent blindness from spreading, a vague governmental figure isolates the contaminated people in a derelict mental asylum.…