Rebirth In Ralph Ellison's The Invisible Man

In connection to a complete rebirth would be in the imagery of the invisible man waking up from the factory incident.“Mother, who was my mother? Mother, the one who screams when you suffer-but who? This was stupid, you always knew your mother’s name. Who was it that screamed? Mother? But the scream came from the machine. A machine my mother?... Clearly, I was out of my head. “ (Ellison, pg 240) After the factory incident the invisible man is practically given a free reset on his views in life. He experienced a rebirth without memory of a father or mother, rather instead becoming his own parents. The imagery of a woman screaming is a recollection to the events of childbirth, born into the world with the inability of speech and understand who
“ (Ellison, pg 19) The narrator is fighting himself both physically and emotionally, dealing with the current trauma of fighting in the arena on top on shock rugs, but before hand following the proper expectation of a black man and a white woman. Here the women is described as an objectively sexy doll there solely to entertain and look pretty, both parallel that the situation they’re at they both are out of control in their decisions. They both share an underlying layer of social restriction and ties, where the woman is controlled by gender roles and mysogny and where the invisible man is seen below the rights of a stripper. The invisible man is a puppet because he gets roped up in to the situation where it’s at his cost to entertain the hostile white audience, and is unable to make a deicision on his own on how he should react to this beautiful women. Here he is a slave to his own sexuality, trapped physically on a stage with spectators watching his every move. He constantly under the pressure of a performance and is never in control of his own fate,
Being blind and unaware of where he is at and of their intentions there’s a great amount of tension and anticipation in finding out thier purpose. Motifs are musical phrases who are constantly repeated, and the constant repetition as well as the connotation of them music being dramatic is representation of the conflict the narrator feels as he is contrained to whims of the doctors. Its constant pounding is seen to depict a person’s struggle. Though classical music shouldn’t be seen as expressive as the blues to a race’s voice, it leads new imagery of tension and the roots of music, with internal struggle, for example the Fifth being inspired by the pain of loosing hearing and trying to escape the devil’s bearing. The cadences of Beethoven’s Fifth is long encumbered, associated and charged with force and energy! There the history of the music is naturally represented in his head playing at moments where he is at fear for how and why