Life as a slave

In Frederick Douglass’ novel, Narrative of the life of a slave, he recounts the brutality of which slavery has given him. He expresses the following three issues: Hypocrisy, deadly illusions, Ignorance, man’s best friend, and the dehumanizing effects of slaver, corrupted power at its worst.
An illusion, a lie, entanglements, in on word hypocrisy. A deadly theme in Douglass’ novel. This makes trusting people extremely difficult and trust in humanity is what he needs now to prevail. In the novel hypocrisy ran ramped through the most religious people. As said in the novel, men dedicated their lives to serving god and his teachings, all the while coming home and committing offensive acts upon their slaves. In other words, all the suppression of the hate and anger they dare not show the public eye was coming out when the slaves were massacred. All the men and women wanted to look like good little followers of god, poster children of holiness. Still all the while taking...