Similarly, "Battle Royal" by Ralph Ellison conveys the way African Americans behaved when choosing between their natural self and what was expected of them as members of society. ... I had no dignity" (Ellison 3). ... Furthermore, Ralph Ellison successfully displays the fixture of social imbalance during the nineteenth century through the narrator's speech. ... Ellison dramatizes the situation by having the white men force the narrator to repeat "social responsibility" several times. ... Shirley Jackson and Ralph Ellison successfully portray the immoral aspects ...

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