Ralph Ellison’s novel, Invisible Man, is a story about a Negro college student who learns more than his major studies, it exposes the racial differences, struggle for racial equality and confused individual identity. Like a circus performer with his head in a lion’s mouth, The Invisible Man is an actor or entertainer in the game of life. He tries to please the crowd through his actions which are treated as if they occur outside of reality, like something in a movie or television program. Most human beings treat others as pawns to be manipulated in order to fulfill certain selfish means. This is noticed more than once during the events of the novel. The white benefactor to the college views the main character and his university as nothing more than an antidote to his nagging conscience or another tax write-off. The Communist Party, on the other hand, views blacks as nothing more than a special interest group that they can keep in check and manipulate through their rhetoric. In Light in August, William Faulkner refrained from …show more content…
But it can be explored from so many angles by so many ideas. Man Sometimes uses several types of greed in order to live or to escape from death, at that time, it is compulsory to do that. But if this desire continues to become a habit and then develops, it will be unwanted thing. Joan Riviere, a British psychoanalyst, notes that greed "represents an aspect of the desire to live. … By its very nature it is endless and never assuaged; and being a form of the impulse to live, it ceases only with death" ( David P. Levine, 67) . Greed expresses man’s experience of desire as something without measure. This infinite desire causes predicaments and problems, but it is not easily to give it up. So, man’s inability to give up his infinite desire expresses the depth of his attachment to the hope for a perfect