Representation of Disability in Majid Majidi’s Color of the Paradise

Abstract

Disability is a concerned term that carries the meaning of absence of ability to perform the task. It indicates the physical impairments which signal that they belong to certain group of people who cannot engage themselves in the normal activities because of their bodily or mental deficit such as deafness, blindness, mental dysfunction and physical impairments. It can be congenital or acquired. In fact, it is the human reality. Anyone from every walks of life stands at the risk of being disabled. Everyone undergoes such barriers in one way or other. Such barriers either physical or attitudinal limit the activity and constrain the life of the disable people and have been more worsened by society. In this thesis, the term disability has come to represent the types of social oppression like other discriminatory practices i.e. sexism, racism. As a result, disability is viewed differently today than it was in the past. Many sources from ancient time exemplify that the disability was associated with moral aspect of life and was considereda result of the divine punishment. Hence, the disable people were the individual and even to the family. Disabled people were repugnance in the society. They were confined to inferior situation and they were treated as the undesirable beings in the society. Keywords: Disability,Cultural Representation, Stigma, Constructing Normalcy and Cinematography