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A review of Ralph Elisons Invisible Man

for the following chapters, which describe his life. "And so it is with me. Without light I am not only invisible, but formless as well; and to be unaware of one's form is to live a death. I myself, after existing some twenty years, did not become alive until I discovered I my invisibility." An unfullfilled dream of importance and finding meaning of life can leave a person with a sense of being invisible. If everyone around doubts the existence, how can an individual himself not conform to the society and lose any self value or respect. To cope with the 'reality' the Invisible Man has to find a new perspective on life; one that would let him see himself as a person, despite everybody else's ignorance of his existence. The theory of Invisibility is convenient for that purpose.Few of the primary conflicts of the novel are about a Black man who goes through life with a dream of becoming somebody important, somebody that would matter to others. No matter how cruel are the lessons of life, he is still blinded by his nave character. He does not realize that he is nobody. His first experience is the Battle Royal. He thinks that his talents and abilities would somehow separate him from the others, when in reality he just gets the same treatment as others. He doesn't recognize the difference between what he had expected and what he got. The reward justifies everything that has been done. One of the most shocking and unforgetful moments in the book is the Battle Royal. The cruelness of what had been done to these people, merely for the entertainment of the few important white men, can be appaulingfor the reader. It's hard if not impossible to understand the morality of earning a living by torturing others. But what is more obscure is the reaction of the Invisible Man to the surrounding situation. Clearly at the time he has a misunderstanding of life and misinterpretation of events taround him. During the fight he was not thinking about how to ge...

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