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20 Février 2021
Thus, we see that Bledsoe uses masks not onlyto dupe the white establishment but to dupe his own students. Thenarrator's grandfather advised his family to use masks as a formof self-defense and resistance against racist white power, but Bledsoe usesmasks as a weapon against members of his own race. Moreover, heuses deception to achieve an influential position within the white-dominatedpower structure rather than to dismantle that structure. One canargue that Bledsoe's character shows the ultimate limitations ofthe grandfather's philosophy: African Americans will not win truepower for themselves as a people if they continue to lead doublelives. Imazing crack.
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Yet, while Ellison may imply that active duplicity andillusion may not lead to freedom and dignity, he suggests that AfricanAmericans should nonetheless remain aware of their power, if onlyto be on guard against them. This message comes across in the episodeof Barbee's sermon. The sermon reinforces total allegiance to thecollege's and Bledsoe's (outward) philosophy. Barbee regards the Founderas a god of sorts, whose ideology should be trusted completely,like a religion. The sermon declares that the Founder's ideologyand life represent a universal example that should be followed blindlyrather than skillfully manipulated, as Bledsoe does. This blindfaith and blind allegiance becomes physically embodied in the characterof Barbee—a blind man. Ellison implicitly compares Barbee, whosefirst name is Homer, to the legendary blind Greek poet Homer, whocomposed the Odyssey and the Iliad. Barbee's sermon, an appreciativetribute to the Founder, attempts a project similar to that of Homer'stwo epic poems, which celebrate the Greek heroes Odysseus and Achilles,respectively.

The story of the Founder's physical impotence emphasizesthe powerlessness that arises from a policy of blind faith. If theFounder himself—this figurehead of the college's power and glory—issterile, then the fertility of his vision and legacy comes intoquestion. His legacy's offspring include a blind preacher, the double-dealingBledsoe, and a narcissistic Boston philanthropist who refuses to acknowledgewhat seems to be an incestuous attraction to his deceased daughter.The Founder's name is lost to history, and he becomes an empty symbolmanipulated by men like Bledsoe to preserve the blindness of others.The reverent sermon revives the narrator's blind love and devotionto the college and to its program; however, this devotion promptsthe narrator to trust blindly in the self-interested Bledsoe. Whilereprimanding the narrator for his carelessness with Norton, Bledsoetoys with an antique slave shackle, noting that it symbolizes African-Americanprogress. By the end of these chapters, however, Bledsoe's shacklebecomes a symbol of continuing enslavement to multiple forms ofblindness.
