Theme Of Dreams In The Invisible Man

Dreams express people 's greatest desires, worries, feelings, and important moments in their life. Also the consciousness finds ways to escape reality or show the mind what it truly wants or wants to avoid. In the Invisible Man, some of the book 's most important moments are expressed in dreams. For instance, the nameless narrator has lucid dreams of his grandfather in critical times of the story. In addition, few of the characters dream of their secret and most disturbing desires. The characters dreams express their emotions, ambitions, and pain. Ellison uses dreams in the character development of the protagonists in the Invisible Man. In the beginning of the novel, the narrator is smoking marijuana and listening to music that carries him

Norton. Trueblood is a poor black farmer who accidentally impregnates his own daughter (50). He explains a dream where he tries to find a man name Mr. Broadnax. He goes inside the fellow’s house and finds a white room (57). Ellison symbolizes the white room with Trueblood’s daughter virginity, because she is pure comparable to how white is the color for pure. Trueblood detects a white women in the house and attempts to avoid her or even touch her. However the women grabs onto him and they fall onto a white bed, because of that white geese fly up from the bed (58). Trueblood’s daughter loses her virginity, and Ellison explains it with the geese in the dream. Without a doubt, readers infer that Trueblood had a secret, unspeakable, desire for his

Norton. After hearing about Trueblood’s dream, Mr. Norton is shocked by how Trueblood has not been punished for his disrespectful manner (51). However, Mr. Norton has feelings for his own daughter in the same ways. As disturbing as these thoughts are, people have them in everyday life, it is called the Oedipus Complex. In the play Oedipus the King, Oedipus finds an attraction to his own mother, for whom he did not know was his mother, and had children with her (Sophocles, Oedipus). Oedipus, Trueblood, and Norton share some similar interest in their type of lover even though it is quite disturbing it is a natural human behavior. However Trueblood and Oedipus went a step