Blindness first reading

Blindness is a story about a blindness disease that is spread to the general population. The people infected by the disease are quarantined in a mental hospital. It is at the mental hospital where the blind are expected to survive with no assistance. They are tasked with cleaning themselves and burying their dead and burning their waste. Doing any  of these three task would be a challenge but when blind they become ever more difficult. Initially the inhabitants of the hospital are those we are infected or those who are suspected of being infected. The number of residents grow steadily until the hospital is accommodating much more than it can possibly hold. Within this story I think the author is trying to showcase the animalistic nature of humans when confronted with fear. Fear is a major component to the treatment of the infected by the government and even by those who are suspected of being infected. In one case the suspected infected residents of the hospital forgo taking food out of fear of becoming blind. Fear in this case literally keeps them from satiating their hunger. In a later case guards don't even enter the building to deliver food out of fear. The guards in this case are refusing to do their duty out of fear. I think as the story continues there will be more examples of how fear plays into character's actions.