The Invisible Man By Hg Wells
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The Invisible Man by HG Wells
Griffin – Wells goes in great detail about the way Griffin (the Invisible Man) looks and acts. He writes about Griffins bad temper and his evil scheme of stealing money and food to survive as an invisible man. He makes the character, Griffin, realistic because his emotions, like expressing his anger through shouting, are something people are familiar with. Griffin was quick to anger by the taking of drugs and stimulants. What may have begun as quick temper and impatience turns into violent rage and a wish to commit murder. Griffins deterioration is self-induced for the most part, but his alienation from his own kind is assisted by other human beings. Fear and superstition follow him, and it seems a defensive mechanism of humans to lash out and destroy the things they fear and do not understand.
Griffin had been a brilliant young chemist and researcher, confined and unappreciated as an instructor in a small English college. His brilliance had led him to investigations in physics and the properties of light. It is interesting to observe that as his passion for experimentation and his devotion to pure scientific investigations accelerated. When he required money to advance his experiments in invisibility, he stole it from his father.
He finds the possibility to make something invisible. He trys it with a cat and it works. So then he made himself invisible. As an invisible man he could steal, as much he wanted. He is chased by dogs, hunted down in a department store, nearly run over in the streets, and constantly subjected to the discomfort of exposure and he gets lots of head colds. He is a man caught in a trap of his own making. Then, of course, he is betrayed by the only person in whom he placed confidence.
Griffins end is tragic, but it is the culmination of the tragic course he had followed since he first ventured into the unknown terrors of invisibility.
Mr. Thomas Marvel – Griffin meets a man named Marvel and wants him to be his servant. He is very scared and does what Griffin expects him to do at first, but when they come to Port Stowe, Marvel tells the barmen at the Jolly Cricketers pub that the invisible man could be there. Marvel got the money and the diary of the experimental investigator. He has opened an inn, and tells everybody what has happened to him after that time, when there had been an invisible man. And every Sunday he takes out Griffins notes and says that he wouldnt have done what the researcher did hed just, well.
Kemp – He is an old fellow student of the invisible man. He is also a man of science. Griffin feels a bond with Kemp because they had attended the same university and are both men of science. Dr. Kemp is down to earth and, while perhaps not the inventive genius Griffin is, has maintained a sense of balance. Kemp, of course, is not a violent man, and he is quick to detect that Griffins temper is a potentially dangerous thing.
At this point Griffin is a potential murderer, and the trust and confidence he places in Kemp only make that doctors betrayal of that faith all the more difficult to accomplish in good conscience. But when the invisible man comes to him, he thinks he has gone completely mad and he wants to get rid off him. So the invisible man chases Dr. Kemp. But after a while the invisible man himself in chased by Kemp.
Mrs. Hall: She is the owner of the inn in Iping Village. She feels sorrow for the invisible man and wants to help him, but he refuses. After a time she cant stand the mystery anymore.
Setting
The invisible man decides to move to a town called Iping, where he takes up residence in the Coach and Horses inn in order to research. The Halls are the owners of
this inn. Mrs. Hall is a very curious lady and the reason why Griffin shows his invisibility. Things develop and all inhabitants of the town get to know that Griffin is
invisible. Where he is hunted.
The story takes place in the late nineteenth century early twentieth century. Both the time and place are important, because this story could not take place today. Towns are too big, people seem to be much more intelligent and the city would be an excellent place to hide.
Plot
This story is about a scientist called Griffin who made a brilliant invention. But not thinking of the result of this he is killed by people who where scared of him.
At first he comes to Iping a little town in England where he wants to stay in order to do research. Griffin found out how human beings could become invisible and that was one reason why he left home. He is not able to get visible again which will become a major problem of this man. When things develop the people of the town find out that Griffin is invisible and immediately he is a hunted creature. The invisible man meets Dr. Kemp whom he knows very well because they went to the same university. But Kemp wants him, like everybody, to be caught. At last the invisible man is killed in a struggle.
Dr. Kemp is the