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identity. He did not know who he was and what his goal in the society was.
In the Brotherhood, he also did not know who he was. He had said for himself, he was the man who the brotherhood thought him was. In the Brotherhood you were not allowed to own yourself consciousness. So the hero did not know who he was. He could not found the former himself. Now he was a new person to be presented in the public occasion to represent the Brotherhood. He did the things that the brotherhood let him do, even though the thing was beyond his intention. He thought he was racing with himself. But this was not the true himself. The hero in the brotherhood had lost himself. It was difficult to find himself again.
Briefly, self-loss was the root reason to make the hero be an invisible man. With no name and no identity, he had been a totally invisible man.
3.3 Economic development of capitalism
Searching for freedom was a typical theme in American literature. In different historical period, the meaning of searching for freedom was different. When Ellison wrote the Invisible Man, the world had entered 20th century. At that time, the American society of material civilization was improving rapidly. After the two world wars being over, people began to pay attention to the problem of humanitarian and humanity. But in the contemporary capitalist society, with the fast development of material civilization people's spiritual life became more and more empty. And because of the rapid development of scientific technology and the height of the production socialization, people became associated to the machine. They lost their personality and human nature.
And people found it was difficult to be himself especially for the black man.
Under this situation of American society, in order to live in this unequal society, the black man should obey the rule of the society that was the white people were superior. The black have no right to choose his position. And the black have no freedom and no dignity in thisAmerican society. They listened to the arrangement of the white man.
Invisible Man was written in this situation. It reflected the black's miserable life living in American. In this novel the hero's invisibility came from the society's ignoring to the black. In this novel, the white trustee, Mr. Norton was the represent of upper capitalist. He played the role of a kind-heart man. On the surface he was cared about the life of the black man in American and cared about the fate of the black. But in fact, he had a stony heart. When the hero brought him to a black family, he could not accept this and could not believe this. He never showed sympathy to the black man. On the country, he had ignored this. Unfortunately, the hero was droved off from this black's college. It was because the hero let the white trustee see what he should not see. And the hero should be punished.
In the Brotherhood, the head of the Brotherhood just regarded the hero as a tool. Their relationship was not close fraternal ties but employer-employee relationship. In this society which was dominated by the cold fish, the black man seemed more helpless. In this novel, Ellison did not write the time the place and the name of the hero on purpose. He just used the invisible man to observe the society and to describe the unequal world. It showed the misery of the hero searching for his dream. He tried his best to be excellent in the