They see his surroundings, and they see themselves, but when they look in his direction, they cannot see him. Instead, they observe their assumptions, misunderstandings, and imaginings - their own fixed ideas about the composition of his character and the blackness of his skin. Blackness is invisibility, he says (Ellison, 13), and invisibility has the power to drain vitality. "It's enough to make you doubt if you really exist," he explains (Ellison, 4). Nevertheless, he does exist, and he has gone underground, but he's only there for a season.
He was no longer just invisible, he was blind. The only thing he could think about was his speech of course; he would not be giving his speech anytime soon seeing as he was getting beat up. The only time he wasn’t invisible was when he was getting hit otherwise; he was always part of a group. He was invisible until he got hit because the men would see that and they’d yell stuff like “kill him” (23) and “slug him, black boy! Knock his guys out” (23).
“I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass.” - Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man In the prologue of Ellison's Invisible Man, the narrator immediately identifies himself as an invisible and unnamed young black man, a wisdom that he has gained from his adolescent experiences of docility in a Southern state to his more radical experiences in Harlem, New York. Once innocent and naïve, the narrator, now aware of his unnoticeable role as a black man, tells the story of his journey from blindness to sight and then insight. In his story, he passes through various communities as he grows as a person, each one promoting a different idea of how blacks should behave in society, and the invisible man tries to find himself in the values and expectations imposed on him, only to find that each appointed role he adheres to limits his individuality and forces him to play an unauthentic part. He is stereotyped by the groups he affiliates himself with – to the Brotherhood, he is the black token to be used to further the group's self-serving and abstract ideas; to wealthy, white trustees like Mr. Norton, he is their so-called destiny; to Dr. Bledsoe, he is another “black uneducated fool” (Ellison 143) who isn't able to play the game in order to gain influence and power; and to the white New York woman, he is a “big black bruiser” (Ellison 522) who can fulfill her Negro fantasies.
In the first section of the novel, the narrator seems to obsess over the fact others are blind to his existence. He takes us into his troubled world, a life of homelessness, thievery, and loneliness in the city of Harlem. Unfortunately, the narrator is continually hypocritical and refuses to see the truth about society’s apparent blindness. He sees only what he wants to see as to victimize himself and his continued misanthropic behavior makes the reader question his credibility. By asking society to reject their blindness, the narrator does not realize that he, too, would have to do so as well.
After the spectacle in front of them leaves the boys are led to a ring and told that they would be blindfolded and have to fight each other this is the point that the battle royal is about to begin. The boys to include the narrator are further humiliated as they begin to wildly swinging trying to hit whoever was closest to them. It turns into total anarchy as everyone begins to fight everyone else. The harder the boys fight the more threatening the white men become.
Find evidence of fixation in the case study. What would have caused this fixation? Hank has an unconscious personality. Hank does not know how others feel about him since he was not well educated about the social norms, hence his aggressive comments and attitude towards other people. Since he was isolated from his friends he didn’t have the people to tell him about his attitude or bring his bad habit to his conscious mind.
There is much intra-race conflict; the narrator as to fight Tatlock. The narrator started fighting automatically, without a solid purpose, fighting against members of his own race. He must prove himself to the ’white men’. Left in the ring is the strong versus the weak, educated against uneducated. All tat lock wants to do is rip the narrator apart, maybe
Besides, all kind of illegal or immoral activities would remain and root deeply in the society if most of citizens are ignorance. In the play, ignorance is apparently portrayed and paralleled to the compact majority. The compact majority can be compared to un-educated people who are generally seen in many developing countries. Compared the Bath to technology development or social development, the city cannot accomplish this development surely since the compact majority is ignorance. Ibsen, faithfully, wrote the play as a way to criticize Europe society at the times when people were not interested in any technologies and truths.
Ralph was only fighting back in self-defence but also had happened to injure one of the savages in his attempts to elude the boys. These boy now turned savages killed Simon and Piggy, without second thought to what they were doing, Even though it was Roger who dropped the rock on Piggy’s head, none of the other boys did anything to stop him. “High overhead, Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever.
It seems he lacks a temper all together, hampering his use of it. Again, Don Quixote's quick anger leads him into the fight with the Biscayan:" 'Now quoth Agrages, you will see,' shouted Don Quixote. Flinging his lance to the ground, he drew his sword, clasped his buckler and rushed at the Biscayan with the firm determination of taking his life"(Cervantes, 104). There is no entity stopping the rampage of emotions currently storming around in his mind. When he is in the pursuit to kill, he will stop at nothing to satisfy his anger.