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Analyzing The Struggle For Power In Four Novels: Fahrenheit 451, Invisible Man
Lord of the Flies and Julius Caesar

        If you delve into the content of almost any novel, there is almost
always some kind of struggle for power.  It could be for rightful integration
into society; power over an island; power over a country; or in some cases, even
power over the minds of others.  These not at all uncommon struggles for power
are what keep us interested in the plot of a book.  The ongoing battle between a
character and his cause makes it impossible to put down a good book.  For
instance, the novel 1984 by George Orwell  is about the struggle of a man and a
woman to somehow find a way to get out of the constant barrage of cameras and
mind control conducted by their government.  Although the two of them eventually
lost the battle, there was still a victor in the struggle for power:  their
government.

     In the novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, the main struggle for
power deals with the government.  This overly oppressive, almost Orwellian style
bureaucracy, tries to make sure there is no interaction with books at all.  They
believe that books permeate their society and corrupt the minds of the people.
Unannounced searches of property by "firemen" are not at all uncommon.  At the
slightest inkling of this futuristic contraband, these firemen will rummage
through all of one's property, at times, destroying everything in their path.
On the opposite side of that spectrum, there is a struggle for power by the
people as well.  There is the woman who hid several thousand volumes of books in
her house.  She loves these books so much that when the firemen ransacked her
house, she went down with the books without hesitation.   In another example of
this ongoing struggle for power, some people's lives were actually transformed
into books.  Their names changed to the title of the book, and they had to
memorize every single written line of text.  These people were so determined to
fight for what they believed, that it would be impossible to say that some kind
of struggle for power did not exist.  They were struggling for the power of
freedom.  There is not only one kind of freedom you can have.  Some peoples
struggle for the power of freedom might be just to be allowed to exist at all.
     When you read the Invisible Man, a novel by Ralph Ellison, in lies one
of the most incredible and wonderful struggles for power that very possibly this
world has ever seen.  It involves the struggle of a black man  trying to find a
point of equilibrium for himself in a white man's world.  Invisible Man was
filled with a virtual plethora of differing and multi-cultural characters.  For
example, Mr. Norton, Brother Jack, Ringo from the paint factory, the
Superintendent; all of these characters presented in the novel provide a more
realistic sense of how the protagonist dealt with society in very different ways.
  Some of the different characters mentioned above had to be handled in
different ways.  Mr. Norton and the superintendent had to be treated always with
respect.   The protagonist's ability to recognize these different forms of
society and how to deal with each one of them  eventually helped him adapt in a
more appropriate way to different places in society.  The protagonist, however,
was not the only ...

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