In this short quote, Griffin considers the incredible feat he wants to achieve-becoming invisible.
And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man - the mystery, the power, the freedom. To do such a thing would be to transcend magic.
He had no desire to help anyone other than himself, so even if he had taken a slightly different path, he probably would’ve ended up in an equally bad situation. His career came to nothing (something that is no one’s fault but his own), but the narrator can’t help but allude to the wasted potential that was lost with Griffin’s death.īut it’s hard to consider that potential without also e Griffin’s personality and interests. It led to his death, hunted down by the townspeople of Iping. The “first of all men” to do so and the consequences of his actions. Here, the narrator describes the pivotal moment when Griffin made himself invisible. The consequences of his invisibility are something that he did not consider before he went through with the experiment.Īnd there it was, on a shabby bed in a tawdry, ill-lighted bedroom, surrounded by a crowd of ignorant and excited people, broken and wounded, betrayed and unpitied, that Griffin, the first of all men to make himself invisible, Griffin, the most gifted physicist the world has ever seen, ended in infinite disaster his strange and terrible career. He can get all the money and possessions he wants, but since he’s invisible, it’s hard, or impossible, for him to enjoy them. He’s achieved something incredible, but the results are not quite what he hoped. These lines are spoken by Griffin and concern his experience with invisibility. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got. I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. In The Invisible Man, Griffin dives into the unknown, as the following quotes suggest, without truly thinking through what long-term invisibility is going to be like. He was interested in telling an entertaining and thought-provoking story while also reminding readers of the dangers that unchecked or speedy scientific advancement can bring with it. The author imbued this novella with a great deal of meaning.
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