However did the author not only mean to create a story limited to a certain individual - even though individuality is a crucial theme in Invisible Man - but also wanted to put emphasis on the universal character that is linked with the novel. According to Ellison the struggling initiation of the main character should be seen as parallelism for the development of the black race - or even further: for all individuals - within the American society (cf. ... For being able to investigate the main character's search for identity these different ideologies are examined in order to divide his que...

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