Image Patterns: Liberation in the Immoralist The Immoralist by Gide is a novel that takes you through a series of events in the life of a man named Michel. The biggest issue seen in the novel is that of egocentrism. Everything done in the book is done to pleasure Michel and only him. I looked at the novel differently. I saw it as being about a man who is trapped in many aspects of life …showed first 75 words of 1829 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1829 total…cannot take control of him because his mind hasn’t been completely freed from his old beliefs and rational thinking. “I have liberated myself, but what does it matter? This useless freedom tortures me.”(Pg. 169) Michel will never be free, spiritually. Everything he tries to change comes back to him, because he is a thinker, he is alive. The only true liberation is death. * Passage taken from the Webster’s New World Dictionary, Pg. BT-78.