ENDLESS HOPE IN DAVID BRINE’S THE POSTMAN AND JOSÉ SARAMAGO’S BLINDNESS

Abstract

Post-apocalyptic fiction is a literary subgenre that deals with the end of the world as a result of nuclear or biological warfare, as well as ecological, geological, or cosmological disasters, and what form of existence awaits those who survive such immense damage. Post-apocalyptic works include David Brin's The Postman and José Saramago's Blindness. In The Postman, Gordon Krantz, the protagonist of the novel wears a U.S. Postal Service uniform and he collects to convince people that the United States has survived the apocalypse. The novel describes the collapse of the Earth due to reasons such as epidemics, nuclear wars, famines, and climate change. Blindness is told while a man is waiting for the green light to come on in traffic, he suddenly becomes blind and an epidemic of blindness spreads through the city through this man. Although this blindness is not epidemic fatal, it is succeed in destroying all moral values. People trying to live in a world where there is no hope have come to the point of extinction. Brin's protagonist, Gordon Krantz, and Saramago's protagonist, the doctor's wife, are at the center of post-disaster events. The protagonists of both novels are leaders who give people hope that everything will be better in the future. The purpose of this study is to examine endless hope in David Brine’s The Postman and José Saramago’s Blindness.