Analysis Babylon Revisited By F. Scott Fitzgerald And...

Having an addiction can be an agonizing and insufferable adventure anyone can ever face. It usually starts small with a â€Å"I’ll try it once†, then eventually becomes a fully developed addiction. In Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin, both poems portray blindness verses sight. Babylon Revisited is about a man named Charles Wales who returns to Paris and is on a mission to regain custody of his daughter while being blinded by his addictions whereas Sonny’s Blues is about a narrator and his younger brother Sonny. Sonny gets arrested and tries to explain his suffering and how his addictions was his escape but his brother (the narrator) is blinded by Sonny’s addictions as well. The purpose for writing this paper is to explain how the imagery of blindness verses sight is similar and different in both Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin using their addictions. Both p oems show how an addiction can create a barrier or prevent progress which makes it harder to overcome. In most cases it was the characters themselves preventing their progression in my opinion. For this reason, a question to consider is; was addiction actually blindness to both Sonny and Charles or was this just an escape from pain? In the poem Babylon Revisited, one of the few addictions Charles Wales had was towards alcohol use. When Charles first arrived in Paris he let his addiction of alcohol blind him. He took to the streets of Paris,