Book Review: The Invisible Man

 

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About the Author

The Invisible Man was written by H.G. Wells and was published in 1897. HG Wells was often referred as “Father of science fiction”. The invisible man was one of his best-sellers thriller novels. His different sci-fi concepts made his books even more interesting.

Summary

The story of The Invisible Man is of a mystery who guy goes to a village referred to as Iping, in the middle of a night of the blizzard. He then checks in a local inn owned by George Hall and his wife Janny hall. They raise ask to not be upset concerning the hurricane, and he goes to his room together with his bags. The man’s name is Griffin and is a scientist who usually spends time in his room where he works on his experiments.

Griffin’s appearance becomes the talk of the town as he wears bandages on his whole body, wears a hat, glasses, and an artificial nose. The villagers label him a strange person, as damage-ins and a series of robberies begin happening within the village after his arrival. 

But things start to escalate and become worse when innkeeper Janny hall asks him to pay up his rent or leave. Griffin is angry and annoyed, and he takes off all his bandages and accessories and manages to fade into the dark at the side by being invisible

Griffin at that point confides in Thomas Marvel by force, a drifter, and makes him his assistant. But, Marvel sells out him and takes him to the police, so Griffin flees once more. The Invisible Man thumps them and unleashes some significant devastation while leaving.

While he is on the run once more, Griffin ends up gathering Dr. Kemp, his old associate from medical school. Griffin at that point informs his companion Kemp regarding his experiments with invisibility. He additionally discloses to him how he has made arrangements to threaten the country by utilizing his power of invisibility. 

He tells him how he was poor and was eager to develop the invisibility formula, and that his father committed suicide after he asks him for money, although the real reason for suicide remains unclear. After a series of experiments, Griffin finally seeks his long-awaited achievement of being invisible. 

A series of crimes begin, Griffin sets his landlord’s house on fire, robs stores around London, and finally ends up in Iping. Dr. Kemp contemplates that Griffin has lost his sanity and his motives are not ethical, he alerts the police over him and the police catch him again.

Griffin once again escapes the grips of police, thanks to his invisibility. But the residents of the village chase him down and beat him down to death. As he starts dying, he starts to lose his invisibility and his real body starts reappearing.

As they say “With great power comes greater responsibility”. Griffin misused his power for his narcissistic dreams. His power was not his invisibility but his scientific mind and approach. Marvel saved all of Griffin’s notes from his experiments on invisibility but he is not able to understand them.

So, if you are in for a mysterious sci-fi thriller, “The Invisible Man” is the one for you.

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Written By - Nachiket Kekre

Edited By - Anamika Malik