Achieving Liberation In Invisible Man, And Siddhartha

Throughout life we wander around in search for a purpose, a reason to exist, and to find pleasure not only in what they do but find pleasure in themselves. Yet for some this is easy and they find it very early on. While others tend to struggle finding themselves among everyone else, whereas those who find themselves early on look to themselves not others. Through this process the become liberated from the bores of society, and begin to enjoy their life. We can see many of these examples in works of literature, works such as the Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, and Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach and the Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff; we see the characters of these novels achieving liberation through overcoming the control of oppressors, facing challenges and obstacles, and their self-doubt to find themselves as well as their voice.
One of the more obvious examples of Challenges in achieving liberation is a person or group of people that wishes to keep others in a state of service to them, otherwise known as an oppressor.
In the novel Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison The protagonist, who remains nameless throughout the course of the story, encounters an organization called the brotherhood. For a long time, the protagonist works for them in a struggle to find himself, and throughout the story he uses others to determine his self-worth. Through the brotherhood he does find himself, as a speaker, and the brotherhood uses his abilities to persuade people to join
them.