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Maia Brown Invisible Man Final Redo Motifs are recurring structures, contrasts, or literary devices that can help to develop and inform the text’s major themes. Ellison changed the thinking towards African Americans by using many motifs to bring out the unfair, malice racism the white’s inflicted. Many of these include blindness, invisibility, jazz and blues, masks as subterfuge and the puppets. Probably the most important of these in Invisible Man is that of blindness, which recurs throughout the novel and generally represents how people willingly avoid seeing and confronting the truth. Prejudice has covered up dirt with three inches of cold snow. The white inability to see that which their prejudice does not allow them to see, forces the narrator into a life of effective invisibility. The boys at the “battle royal” were blindfolds, symbolizing their powerlessness to recognize their exploitation at the hands of the white men.
Approximate Word count = 582
Approximate Pages = 2.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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