In many works of literature irony plays and important roll in the story. In the short story “Battle Royal” written by Ralph Ellison irony is a key factor on the story. The narrator who is nameless is a young black male in the time slavery recently had been abolished. A time where blacks were free, but looked upon and treated with less than equality. The narrator was awarded for his conduct on the day of …showed first 75 words of 647 total…

…showed last 75 words of 647 total…He was looked as a clown in the circus and was laughed and was used for amusement. He thought the white men were helping him to achieve his goals and would get him where he wanted to go. What he didn’t realize was that he was doing everything the white men wanted him to. They didn’t take him serious and they never would, he will just keep on leading his people in circles.