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Finding Freedom From Blindness, Elisa Klaassen
Finding Freedom From Blindness, Elisa Klaassen
Student Scholarship – English
This piece explores the motif of vision that is used repeatedly throughout J.M. Coetzee's novel Waiting for the Barbarians. Hegel's master-slave dialectic theory can help readers understand the power struggles that are found throughout the novel, as demonstrated through the motif of vision and blindness.