Themes, Setting And Morals Of The Invisible Man

About the author

Herbert George wells was English writer born in 21 September 1866, he writes on various novels, short stories on social issues, science fiction, history, satire, biography. In his science fiction, he took the ideas and fear fantasy that haunted the mind of his age and gave them symbolic expression as brilliantly conceived made credible by the quiet realism of its setting.

About the novel

This is an early science fiction novel written by hg wells in 1897. This novel is basically about how a scientist which develop a method to become invisible, by his invisibility he can use his power of welfare of society but by the greed of being invisible he started harming peoples. he instead of developing idea to become visible again he started behaving rudely with the people due to his ego of being invisible. and at the end his greed led him to tragic end.

Theme and setting of the novel

The main theme of this novel is that how greed can cause inadvertent consequences. This a novel about how a man with his research become invisible, he become so mad of being indivisible. he became so dangerous that he started hurting people, and not even thinking of becoming visible again. but at the end he got caught and by the people. If he uses his power wisely it can be more beneficial for him and the society also, but he chosen the wrong path. That’s why with the great power, there comes the responsibility also.

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Summary of the novel

The story starts with a strange man which came to village name Eping and stayed inn named coach and horses. The man was indulged full of clothes from top to bottom. That inn is run by Mrs. Hall. The name of man was Griffin, even his was full covered with the bandages and googles. Griffin behaved very rudely with Mrs. Hall and very impatiently said to Mrs. Hall that informed him whenever his luggage came from railway station. Mrs Hall said okay sir there will be no problem. Next day Griffin told Mrs. Hall that he is an experimental investigator and he need his equipment’s to perform experiments. Next day a carrier Fearnside came with Griffin’s luggage in which scientific equipment are there and there also some handwritten notebooks also and some crates with liquid matter and there was label of poison was written on it. By seeing he was looking like a scientist, but the next Mrs. Hall heard some clashing sounds of bottle. Then he asked Griffin that what is happening. Then Griffin told Mrs. Hall that please don’t disturb me right now and if you want to you can add charges of it in the bill. Griffin stayed for months in the inn. He never goes to church, nor even talk to anyone in the village and he only came out of inn in night only. All villagers were started talking about the Griffin. He never showed his face to anyone and the bandages were always there on his face. Then one day a local doctor William cuss came to Griffin in that inn and then doctor saw that the hand of Griffin was missing from his sleeve, but the doctor feels that hand on his nose. By seeing all these things, the doctor ran away from there. Many days passed away Griffin was not paying his bills to Mrs. Hall. Then Mrs. Hall warns Griffin that pay the bills by Tomorrow or leave the room. But Griffin has no money then he left with only one way and that was theft. So, at that night Griffin tried to do robbery in Mr. And Mrs. Bunting house. After hearing some sound both came down and saw that no one was there. Then the next the day owner of inn Mrs. Hall asked Griffin that he has not paid the bill till now then Griffin gave the money to Mrs. Hall. Mrs. Hall has doubt on Griffin that he has no money till yesterday then from he got the money. Now all the villagers came and stand in front of Griffin and asked him what’s the matter then Griffin started removing the bandages and googles and his face becomes invisible. After seeing this some villagers ran away from there. Then the local police officer Boby Jaffers tried to arrest him but Griffin ran away from there. Now after ran outside of the village he seeks help from the man named Thomas Marvel. First marvel thought that it was his hallucination that someone was talking to him but is not visible to him, then Griffin through the stone at him and convinced him that in reality he was a man which is invisible. Marvel get shocked by seeing and then became ready to help Griffin. Marvel helped Griffin to bring back his equipment’s from the inn. In the inn Bunting and Dr. Cuss were investigating the books of Griffin they are trying to read but they cannot understand anything as the book was written in geek style. Marvel and Griffin successfully took off the luggage of Griffin from the inn. Whole village is now very much scared of terror of Griffin that no one came outside of their house till 2 hours. As Marvel helped Griffin to bring back his luggage but now, he thought that further he will not help Griffin anymore, but Griffin threatened him that you should help me otherwise I will kill you.

Then the next the Marvel stealthily from Griffin came to the town port stove and there in a pub he started eating the food then there he meets the sailor and start talking to him. Sailor asked Marvel that did you hear about that rumour of an invisible man, there is an article in the newspaper about the terror of an invisible man. As the Marvel ran away from the Griffin came inside the but Griffin also came behind running him and there was fight inside the pub in that fight gets hurt by the bullet and Griffin ran away from there. Now the next scene is in the house of Dr. Kemp. The doorbell of Dr. Kemp rings but the servant of Dr. Kemp told him that no one was there. Then suddenly Dr. Kemp saw the blood drops inside his bedroom and at the handle of the door. Then Griffin started talking with Dr. Kemp, but Dr. Kemp is not ready to believe that there is man inside in his room. Griffin introduced himself to Dr. Kemp and reminded him that we both studied together in a college in London. Now Kemp believed him and served him food and whiskey and Dr. Kemp told him that sleep in my room tonight. Next day Griffin told Kemp that years ago when he was researching on light and optics, he got the idea to invisible the alive tissue and he kept his research confidential because he is afraid that nobody steals his research. After researching on it for 3 years Griffin thought that to continue on his research, he needs some money, but nobody is ready to give money to him. Griffin told kemp that he stolen the money from his father, and he was not ashamed of what he has done because he was a foolish man who is not understanding my efforts. In starting Griffin done his experiments on the piece of fabric and then on the cat of the neighbour’s both became invisible. When Griffin doing his experiments the lot of noise came from the machines due to which his neighbour’s and his landlord become anxious of Griffin and his landlord also had some doubts on him. Griffin thought that by this experiment fabric and cat both became invisible and he thought that why not let it apply on his own body. And Griffin did his experiment on himself and became invisible and as he knew that landlord has some doubt on him, he destroyed all the machines. But after becoming invisible the Griffin realised that how hard this life has become. Now after becoming invisible he can’t eat anything neither wore anything as if he eat something the food is visible till it is digested the Griffin did some robbery and cover himself with some clothes and went to the village to continue his experiment and now he was sitting in front of Dr. Kemp and saying that how it will be if you and me both become invisible and terrorized. Griffin was thinking that kemp will support him, but Kemp warned him that you’re going on wrong way. Only then Kernel Adie came there and then kemp and kernel ran away from there and told everyone about the plan of Griffin in the local area. Then Griffin started killing everyone. Local area people found the dead body of two people and the villagers thought that it must have been done by the Griffin. Then Griffin attacked on kemp , kemp asked for the help from his neighbour’s but the neighbour’s denied to help him , Kemp escaped from Griffin and was running here and there but Griffin caught kemp and suddenly also the local people break upon the Griffin and the people beaten the Griffin till he did not died. After Griffin death his body reappears, and everyone was now able to saw him

Recommendation

Wells write a novel in a very nice manner and in an interesting way. The story itself is also quite funny, I thought and many of the scenes played in my mind as slapstick. The Invisible Man is the ultimate story of an insane anti-hero, before insane anti-heroes became popular. Griffin himself becomes more and more pathetic as the story progress and from the comical start Wells moves away to a darker, subtle satire of small minds in small towns can be just as dangerous as any psychopath.

References

1. sources- novel (“the invisible man”) by HG Wells,
2. Wikipedia- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Wells
3. www.quora.com – for getting general idea that how people like this book