Motif Project by Edna Tsuda

Characters in Invisible Man

ednatsuda — 2016-03-02 16:42:24 UTC

The Narrator -
-The Invisible Man (stuck in circles)

Mr. Norton -
-Lifeless and sickly being (At the Golden Day)

Characters in the Battle Royale
-Senseless beings

Characters in "The Hollow Men"

ednatsuda — 2016-03-02 16:42:50 UTC

The Hollow Men -
-Empty and lost beings
-Have not moved on (to Afterlife)

WORKS CITED

ednatsuda — 2016-03-02 16:52:19 UTC

Gambaccini, Paul. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Mar. 2016.

Shmoop Editorial Team. "The Hollow Men Poem Text." Shmoop.com. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 04 Mar. 2016.

Ralph Ellison: An American Journey California Newsreel, 1992 . Full Video.
Discovery Education. Web. 4 March 2016. .

Comparison of Characters

ednatsuda — 2016-03-02 16:53:04 UTC

-Both literary texts show similarities in the characters.
-They are lost individuals trying to find where they belong.
-They're both invisible.

"The Hollow Men"

ednatsuda — 2016-03-04 16:11:46 UTC

Mistah Kurtz—he dead.

A penny for the Old Guy

I
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar

Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us—if at all—not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.

II
Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death's dream kingdom
These do not appear:
There, the eyes are
Sunlight on a broken column
There, is a tree swinging
And voices are
In the wind's singing
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star.

Let me be no nearer
In death's dream kingdom
Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves
In a field
Behaving as the wind behaves
No nearer—

Not that final meeting
In the twilight kingdom

III
This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man's hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star.

Is it like this
In death's other kingdom
Waking alone
At the hour when we are
Trembling with tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone.

IV
The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms

In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of the tumid river

Sightless, unless
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of death's twilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men.

V
Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o'clock in the morning.

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom

Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long

Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom

For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

Conditions in "The Hollow Men"

ednatsuda — 2016-03-04 16:23:15 UTC

-In Limbo between Heaven and Hell

-"This is the dead land (III)"

"This is cactus land (III)"

"In death's other kingdom
(III)"

"In this hollow valley(IV)"

They feel like empty beings, invisible to all.

Conditions in The Invisible Man

ednatsuda — 2016-03-04 16:25:45 UTC

Mr. Norton
-White Grandfather
-Sickly

"He looked at me with unseeing eyes." (p.g. 54)

-Irrefutably stuck in the experience of reality

The Narrator
-Always running in circles

-Invisible

"That invisibility to which I refer occurs because of a peculiar disposition of the eyes of those with whom I come in contact" (p.g. 3)

"Without light I am not only invisible, but formless as well; and to be unaware of one's form is to live a death." (p.g. 7)

-Never acknowledged

Characters in the Battle Royale
-They're empty men who follow orders
-They have no morality

-They're blind to what they're being enforced to.

"The eyes hollow and smeared a cool blue, the color of a baboon's butt." (p.g. 20)

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Invisible Man, A Short Story

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