The Mastery of Invisibility.
In the very first sentence of the prologue to Invisible Man the character states “I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.” which I found interesting because the main character describes himself as being like a ghost–but not a ghost of terror, or an actual ghost for that matter. He merely lives his life invisible. As the prologue progresses, this man embraces the fact that he is invisible and even states the benefits he gets from being an invisible man–like living rent free and getting free electricity. What truly makes this man’s invisibility quite intriguing is the fact that in his earlier life he had lived as a visible man, but he has come to admire and embrace the certain aspects that come from being invisible. The main character also states that being invisible gave him a different sense of time–one that people who are visible can scarcely master. By the ending of the prologue one can concluded that this man has mastered his invisibility because he even states that he has illuminated the blackness of his invisibility, which that in itself has brought him to life and it has awakened him. The main character also states “Call me Jack-the-Bear, for I am in a state of hibernation” in more ways than one this man is displaying his own mastery of form through his invisibility because he later on states that he never smoked reefer after he tried it once because it inhibits one to act, and he does not want to act because he is hibernating which means that he is preparing for a more overt action, which also projects his own mastery of form.