Physical blindness as a metaphor of moral blindness is a major theme of Shakespeare's King Lear, its significance needing no "modern dress" or adaptation to bring it up to date. Noel Counihan's 1977 "Image of Lear" lithographs bring home the import of Lear's advice to the blinded Gloucester:

"Get thee glass eyes,
And, like a scurvy politician, seem
to see the things thou dost not."
[Act 4, sc. 5, lines 162-64]