Ralph Ellison's " Battle Royal," and Flannery O'Connor's " Revelation."

Specifically, it will look at the prejudices of some of the characters in both stories. One protagonist faces blind, hateful prejudice in "Battle Royal," and the other perpetrates it in "Revelation." Prejudice is ugly, and each story presents it as horribly as possible, to get that message across to the reader.

PREJUDICE IN TWO SHORT STORIES

Battle Royal" by Ralph Ellison is the first chapter of his legendary book "The Invisible Man." This Prologue to the story introduces us to the protagonist, and graphically illustrates the prejudices Black people faced (and still face) in the South after the Civil War. I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time been ashamed" (Ellison).

The main character of "Battle Royal" is a young black man, who undergoes violent "hazing"...
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