Theme of The Country of the Blind Essay -- H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells uses ethnocentrism as a strong thingamajig in the short story The Country of the Blind to generate the exchange conflict and to convey the theme the perils of that deadly combination of stubbornness and concealmentness. The citizenry of the country of the blind have been isolated from the outside world for fifteen generations, making it hard for them to easily accept the truth and facts about the satisfying world. An accidental fall while climbing a mountain leaves Nunez stuck in a valley, which turns out to be the country of the blind. Nunez, the seeing protagonist, after discovering the citizens be blind, expects this to be an adventure and eventually came up with an idea to be the king, since he can see. The idea of ruling the country of the blind evokes the ethnocentrism within Nunez and the blind people. Both, Nunez and the blind people refuse to accept recent beliefs and values at rootage. But as compilations built up, Nunez accepts the way of life sentenc e and traditions but not the beliefs.Nunez encounters the first ethnocentric conflict unexpectedly when the first three blind men disc...