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Essay / The Miracle Worker by Helen Nagel - 654
The Miracle WorkerWhen we reflect on the life of not only a blind child but also a deaf child, we could say that the perception of the world and life is impossible. In the movie The Miracle Worker, Helen Keller was blind, deaf and mute since she was a baby. Helen was unable to communicate with anyone. The question "do you think she had a clear idea of color" is to me defined by her inability to know the difference between colors and the physical appearance of objects of certain colors, for example the sun being yellow. Because Helen was blind and deaf, she couldn't actually see the pink or yellow color that I see. Helen had never actually seen color; therefore, a precise idea of a color is almost impossible. Being blind or deaf would be very difficult, because the blind person has no way of visualizing the current world they live in, and being deaf they cannot hear about the world. In the book What It's Like to Be a Bat by Thomas Nagel, Nagel states the idea that without experience we cannot understand or be aware of what the world is really like. Nagel believes that “without some idea of the subjective character of experience, we cannot know what is required of a physicalist theory” (Nagel, 1974, 437). Nagel says that without any experience one cannot fully know physical or mental truth. When Nagel explains the way of life of bats, it helps to justify humans' view of life in comparison. As humans we cannot understand the reality of a bat, we cannot see what it sees or hear what it hears unless we actually see it instead of just assuming it. It's like a child who is deaf and blind to a child who is neither, the reality is different, and they only know what they have learned through...... middle of paper......when she is left out of the black and white room or with a color television, she will learn what it feels like to see something red” (Jackson, 2012, p. 281 -282), which describes a woman who lives in a black and white room. clean room. In comparison, this helps me believe that Helen did not experience color blindness; therefore, Helen cannot possess the ideas of a color in her mind because she has not yet experienced it. I think Helen can't see the precise colors that we can perceive. It is through my own perception that I can truly see the colors of the world. If I were blind, I would never be able to visualize the color pink like someone who can actually see would. Helen, for example, had been blind since birth, meaning that Helen had never seen a specific color in reality nor could she fully imagine what a color looked like. Helen's inexperience with colors justifies my belief.