Social ConfinementRalph Ellison's exposure to the Jim Crow South in the 1950s inspired him to write Invisible Man 1952. Ellison addressed the nature of American and black identities and their relationship. The protagonist represents black society burdened by social discrimination. Ellison's use of metaphors, symbols, and diction to reveal black obedience is the only prescribed path to escape in the segregated South. He does this by referring to the Invisible Man in many objects, such as a circus act in the battle royale, and by using many different adjectives. Throughout the novel the Invisible Man is on a quest to find himself, he encounters many different obstacles on this journey. This led him to reveal how black people were constantly oppressed in the south during the 1950s. Ellison reveals the unbalanced relationship between white intellectuals and inferior blacks in the setting of Battle Royal. Battle Royal is an extended metaphor for the egalitarianism of white American society toward blacks, and the whole setting resembles a circus act. Just like in a circus, everyone is gathered around an arena or ring to watch the animals, the clowns and the performers to entertain them. In this circus act he pushes to keep African Americans oppressed and running, everyone in the ring is stripped of their humanity, dignity, pride and rights to have their own identity in the Company. All black men are sexually and physically humiliated to entertain community leaders. The protagonist and other men arrive at the boxing match, “crammed into the servants’ elevator” (Ellison 18). Each adversary is locked up like an anima... in the middle of a paper... he does not think for himself, but gives responsibility to others. As a result, Ellison reveals that the protagonist is a robot in white society and invisible in the black community. At the end of the novel, the anonymous narrator isolates himself from society. Ellison does this to ensure that a balance cannot be achieved between the two races. It appears in Ellison's final chapter of Invisible Man that due to the degradation and invisibility with which the protagonist was burdened, he was incapable of existing in such a confined society. This confined society continually pushed black people down in the city where they lived. By forcing black people to do what they want them to do, they continue to keep them in social confinement, without the opportunity to progress in life..