Thomas Szasz: Power of Speech

In the selection written by Thomas Szasz, he describes his opinion on the power of speech and how the first person to speak is the first person to win.   He says that the first person to define another is the victor, and the one who is defined is the loser.   I agree with Szasz’s opinion to a certain extent because based on what I have read and have experienced, this is generally the case.
In the novel Invisible Man, after the narrator has chauffeured Mr. Norton around town he had been punished for the incidents that had occurred during the trip.   Dr. Bledsoe punished the narrator by expelling him from the school though he wrote letters of recommendation so he would be able to get a job in New York, or so the narrator thought.   Dr. Bledsoe wrote negative things about the narrator and asked each of the trustees to whom the letters were addressed to deny him a job at any of their businesses.   Dr. Bledsoe was able to define the narrator as a bad person who needed to be punished before the narrator was able to defend himself or prove that his character was above that which had been described.   This goes along with Szasz’s position on the struggle for definition because it shows how the first one to take action wins the fight.   Dr. Bledsoe beat the narrator to the gun and was able to shoot first.
Later in the novel when Ras the Destroyer instigates the riot against the whites, the narrator is accused of being a traitor to the black community because he was a member of the brotherhood.   The narrator denies being a member of the brotherhood because they had used him and he points out that they had used Ras as well. Ras tells the crowd to capture the narrator so he could be hung for treason.   This coincides with Szasz’s opinion because like in the previous example, the narrator loses as a result of being too late to speak up.   Ras was able to define the narrator as a traitor to the black race which allowed him to win in his argument.  
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