Topic > The Miracle Worker by Helen Nagel - 654

The Miracle Worker When reflecting on the life of not only a blind child but also a deaf child, one might say that perception of the world and life is impossible. In the film The Miracle Worker, Helen Keller was blind, deaf and mute since she was a child. Helen was unable to communicate with anyone. The question "do you think he had an accurate idea of ​​color", for me, is defined by his inability to know the difference between colors and physical appearance on objects of certain colors, for example the yellow sun. Because Helen was blind and deaf, she couldn't actually see the color pink or yellow that I see. Helen had never seen colors; therefore a precise idea of ​​a color is almost impossible. Being blind or deaf would be very difficult, as 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 that without experience we cannot understand or be aware of what the world is really like. Nagel believes that “without an idea, therefore, of what the subjective character of experience is, we cannot know what is required of a physicalist theory” (Nagel, 1974, 437). Nagel is saying that without having any experience it is not possible to fully know physical or mental truth. The way Nagel explains the bats' lifestyle helps justify humans' view of life in comparison. As humans, we cannot understand the reality of a bat, we cannot see what they see or hear what they feel unless we actually see it instead of assuming it. It's like a deaf and blind child towards a child who is neither one nor the other, reality is different and they only know what they have learned through... in the middle of the paper... when it comes to them allowed outside the black and white room or in front of a color television, he will learn what it means to see something red” (Jackson, 2012, p. 281-282), which describes a woman living in a black and white room white room. In comparison, this helps me believe that Helen did not experience color blindness; so Helen cannot possess the ideas of any color in her mind because she has yet to experience it. I think Helen can't see the accurate colors we can perceive. It is thanks to my perception that I can actually see colors in the world. If I were blind I could never visualize the color pink that someone who can actually see would see. Helen, for example, was blind from birth, meaning that Helen had never seen an exact color in reality, nor could she fully imagine what a color looked like. Helen's inexperience with colors justifies my belief.