# Freedom and Entrapment in The Well of the Saints

> Theme guide for The Well of the Saints by J. M. Synge.

The blind characters initially find a kind of freedom in their imagined world, but gaining sight traps them in the harsh realities of their ugliness and social judgment, and they ultimately seek to return to blindness.

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