Topic > Theme of Blindness - 1051

Women were sexually abused by the new male leaders who wanted to satisfy their needs: “He pulled the two women towards him, and almost drooled as he said, I will keep these two, when I will have finished them, I will pass them on to all of you. He dragged them to the end of the aisle, where food containers, packages, cans were piled up, enough supplies to feed a regiment. The women, all of them, were already screaming loudly, blows, slaps, orders, we could hear, Shut up, whores, these whores are all the same, they always have to start screaming, Give it to her good and hard and she'll keep quiet, just wait for my turn to come and you'll see how they'll ask for more, Hurry up there, I can't wait another minute” (179). First, women were treated cruelly and treated as if they were animals, but animals were the new male leaders. Men were animals who couldn't keep their trousers on, for example: “The blind woman who suffered from insomnia moaned desperately under an enormous individual, the other four were surrounded by men with their trousers down who jostled like hyenas around a carcass ” (179). They took advantage of women without showing them any respect. For this reason the girl with dark glasses suffered appalling abuse: «The doctor's wife found herself next to the bed where she had been taken, she was standing, he