The Battle Royal
Title: The Battle Royal
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 679 | Pages: 2.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Battle Royal
A Fight for Freedom
Ralph Ellison’s “The Battle Royal,” shows the relationship between the white and black community in the 1940s. Ellison has the narrator believing that he overcame the stereotypical black man when he is “invited to give a speech at a gathering of the town’s leading white citizens” (579). Only to find out, he is just “part of the entertainment” (579). Ellison uses the events of “the battle royal” to symbolize the battles …showed first 75 words of 679 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 679 total…fought everybody else. No group fought together for to long” (582). The white men find entertainment out of the fighters and their pain. The men scream, “Slug him, black boy! Knock his guts out! Uppercut him! Kill him! Kill that big boy!” (582). This shows that the white society finds enjoyment out of the torment it put the black society through. But if the black community united together it could stop the oppression of the white community.
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