Noah

This past weekend I went with my brother and my father to see the movie "Noah", we sat apart from each other as seats were limited... this also gave me the opportunity to dissect the movie with my own free will rather than having my father comment every moment about what he thought. The movie contained a lot of symbolism that confused me and intrigued me, going through a year of AP Lit I had a lot of thinking to do and the obvious want to understand what I was seeing. Once we walked out of the theater my father and brother commented repeatedly on how much they disliked the movie, being Christians, they thought the movie distorted the bible way too much.

I then thought "Perhaps that is true but is the message of both not the same?"

and as I replayed the rather dark scenes in my head "Invisible Man" quickly was connected to various things. Noah alienated himself and his family from the majority of people because he believed they were sinners and stood for unlawful ideologies. This to me was very similar to what the narrator did, the narrator quickly became very cynical in his actions as he went into hiding as well. While this happened he tried to achieve as much knowledge as possible while almost waiting for an apocalypse to occur just as one did in Noah. The riots and anger and hate that was seen in the book was evident in the bible as well. My question was, "Did Ellison perchance connect these two together at all?" Now I don't know whether or not he did so but I can interpret for myself that he did. The narrator hides in a coal cell with a lot of lights over him... in fact the same number of light-bulb's as Ellison's age (squared) when he wrote the book. This can prove a connection between Noah as well, for Noah stemmed from the line of Seth and remained holy and obedient to God, this squaring of light bulbs almost emits this same ideology as if the narrator thrived and learned knowledge alone under a heavenly source. A lot of apocalyptic imagery was present in the chapters prior to the Epilogue... almost as if the narrator is inside his own ark and is remaining until the world is cleansed of all those hateful and sinners such as Mary and the Brotherhood. Lucius is also in both stories... tempting both people to act a certain and eventually leading to a rebirth of both people. But the main similarity is in the actions of both characters after this cleansing happens, both come into a sort of drunk sense... the narrator a little more abstractly with his obsession with knowledge while Noah actually becomes drunk and is seen by God and his sons naked. So these similarities may be a little far-fetched but they are just what I saw while I was watching the movie. There are of course many differences as well.