Invisible Man
I’ve come
to understand that the ability to make decisions can be hindered by several
factors. The Invisible Man does a good job exploring how societal factors
impact our capability to make our own decisions.
The
Invisible Man as he is regarded as throughout the story has been described through
the story must follow different “rules” because he is a black man, in a time
and era in which racism was a common practice. He is severely limited in life
due to the fact that he is a black man. He does not have access to as many job opportunities,
in fact he is generally decided to be inferior to the white man in society.
Due to
the color of his skin the narrator constantly had to carry around the stereotypes
that society has placed him. Symbolized by a brief case that he could not get
rid of, The Invisible Man always had to live with the fact that he was a black
man. He could not get rid of the prejudice that the color of his skin applied
to him.
This prejudice
guided the choices that he made in life and the opportunities that he had. Like
all of us the prejudices that society applied to him helped shape the choices
that he had and the choices that he made. Because of the prejudice society has
for him his capacity to make choices (free will) has been limited.
