The ethical formalism in José Saramago's essay on the blindness

Saramago, Nobel prize for literature, places us on a stage, in which a group of human beings is confined by suffering a kind of blindness; in that environment lacking everything, a very special plot is developing, in which one of the interned groups, which is the one that makes up the topic of protagonist, has among his own the wife of a doctor who is not affected by blindness; the plot is showing that at first they try to live with those who come from outside, the situation gets worse every time the arrival of new infected, until a last group arrives that using weapons take over the food and unleash the most Inhuman of the stories, In that environment the human being is stripped of dignity, in order to bring some bread to his mouth, reifies and allows rapes in the pretext of food, knows the evil but allows it and even encourages it, we approach a problem of a social-individual nature. First of all, it is only a hope, how the human being can recover his dignity.