Invisibility Invisibility is usually taken to the extreme effect of truly being transparent unseen by anyone and is often depicted in society as the hero going behind the enemys back to complete his mission In Ralph Ellisons The Invisible Man this view of invisibility is turned around so that a man is in plain sight of everyone but do to a lack of observation nobody recognizes what he accomplishes After beginning the novel as a man who stays quietly out of the way by doing what he is told he is
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison is based around a main character whose identity is never revealed throughout the entire novel Blindness and invisibility are ongoing motifs in the novel and Ellison cleverly displays how the motifs are related Ellison might be trying to say that when one becomes blind they are invisible to the truth of their own actions or of societys actions or that when becoming blind African Americans are subjected to the white mans rule Blindness forces an invisible identity T