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This 4 page paper discusses the themes of justice and truth as the characters find them to be in the works of Ellison and Dorfman. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Ralph Ellisons book, The Invisible Man, the concept of justice and truth are explored as the main character seeks to understand their working in his own life. Likewise the topics
are explored in Dorfmans Death and the Maiden from a female perspective. In the end, the conclusions that are drawn illustrate that there are some inherent truths which hold true
as absolute, while others are a personal choice. As with many great novels, the narrator in Ellisons novel, though maintaining a close and intimate contact with the reader, is never
given a name. This ties in with the title of the book, and makes the protagonist a man without a name, an invisible man. This book is completely full of
symbolism and imagery, metaphors and similes, which all draw on the treatment of the black man in the early part of the twentieth century. With the civil rights movement and
the organizational movements of unionized labor serving as a backdrop, the reader watches as a decent good kid becomes hardened by the school of hard knocks, determined to make a
difference, but to make it in a way that serves to lash out at those who have denied him the simple right to live a good and decent life. The
protagonist comes to this conclusion in Chapter ten at the paint factory. In Dorfmans Death and the Maiden, Pauline is the main character who must determine her own sense of
justice when fate delivers a stranger to her door whom she believes to be the former doctor who tortured and raped her many years before. Both the invisible man and
Pauline are faced with the reality of a violent and unforgiving past while attempting to move forward with their lives. The bigger picture, of course, is how society can move
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