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The Invisible Man is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. Originally serialised in Pearson's Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man to whom the title refers is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and who invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light. He carries out this procedure on himself and renders himself invisible, but fails in his attempt to reverse it. A practitioner of random and irresponsible violence, Griffin has become an iconic character in horror fiction.
Griffin tells Kemp the story of how he invented chemicals capable of rendering bodies invisible, which he first tried on a cat, then himself, how he burned down the boarding house he was staying in to cover his tracks, found himself ill-equipped to survive in the open, stole clothes from a theatrical supply shop on Drury Lane, and then headed to Iping to attempt to reverse the invisibility. Having been driven unhinged by the procedure and his experiences, he now imagines that he can make Kemp his secret confederate, describing a plan to use his invisibility to terrorise the nation.
Kemp has already denounced Griffin to the local authorities, led by Port Burdock's chief of police, Colonel Adye, and is waiting for help to arrive as he listens to this wild proposal. When Adye and his men arrive at Kemp's house, Griffin fights his way out and the next day leaves a note announcing that Kemp will be the first man to be killed in the "Reign of Terror". Kemp, a cool-headed man, tries to organise a plan to use himself as bait to trap the invisible man, but a note that he sends is stolen from his servant by Griffin. During the chase, Griffin arms himself with an iron bar and kills a bystander.[2]
Children's literature was a prominent genre in the 1890s. According to John Sutherland, Wells and his contemporaries such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling "essentially wrote boy's books for grown-ups." Sutherland identifies The Invisible Man as one such book.[3] Wells said that his inspiration for the novella was "The Perils of Invisibility," one of the Bab Ballads by W. S. Gilbert, which includes the couplet "Old Peter vanished like a shot/but then - his suit of clothes did not."[4] Another influence on The Invisible Man was Plato's Republic, a book which had a significant effect on Wells when he read it as an adolescent. In the second book of the Republic, Glaucon recounts the legend of the Ring of Gyges, which posits that, if a man were made invisible and could act with impunity, he would "go about among men with the powers of a god."[5] Wells wrote the original version of the tale between March and June 1896. This version was a 25,000 word short story titled "The Man at the Coach and Horses" with which Wells was dissatisfied, so he extended it.[6]
Russian writer Yakov I. Perelman pointed out in Physics Can Be Fun (1962) that from a scientific point of view, a man made invisible by Griffin's method should have been blind because a human eye works by absorbing incoming light, not letting it through completely. Wells seems to show some awareness of this problem in Chapter 20, where the eyes of an otherwise invisible cat retain visible retinas. Nonetheless, this would be insufficient because the retina would be flooded with light (from all directions) that ordinarily is blocked by the opaque sclera of the eyeball. Also, any image would be badly blurred if the eye had an invisible cornea and lens.
But then you have to ask, what would happen if a truly good person became invisible? Would they just hide away, or try to live an ordinary life covered in bandages? Would we all be tempted to do bad things knowing no one could see us do it? Would we all become monsters too? I loved this theme, this idea of what is a monster and how an ability like invisibility effects a person.
I read it and really enjoyed it too. The invisible man is an intriguing character and I ended up sympathizing with him a bit. Despite the monster he became, I thought there was potential for him to be good.
Be that as it may, knowing the story in advance left me open to notice other things about the book. For one thing, H. G. Wells' style this time is very dry, sparse and even bland. He uses simple declarative sentences and a great deal of choppy back-and-forth dialogue, It's only at the closing that we get a taste of that Victorian eloquence I love. ("And 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.")
The book also is a quick read. It's fairly short to begin with, and it's made up of chapters three to five pages long. Actually, THE INVISIBLE MAN has much of the feel of a pulp novel from the 1920s or 30s (it was run in serial form in PEARSON'S MAGAZINE in 1897 before book publication that same year, which might explain that). Briefly, the story is the same as the film. A stranger arrives in a merciless snowstorm at a small country inn. His face is wrapped in bandages, with only a fake-looking pink nose and bits of hair sticking out. He takes rooms there to perform some sort of research but proves so difficult and irascible that eventually the constable is called in to throw him out; at this point, he strips down to stun everyone with the revelation that he is in fact invisible (but solid and otherwise normal).
A couple of aspects strike me as worth citing. Griffin (no first name given; British men of that era usually addressed each other by last name) was a brilliant student at College University. "who won the medal for chemistry." Griffin refers to himself as "almost an albino... with a pink and white face and red eyes." Later, he is described as having a hair and brows "white - not grey with age, but white with the whiteness of albinism - and his eyes were like garnets." It isn't mentioned in the movie versions, but Griffin's formula wouldn't work on the average person. His theory is that all living tissue is essentially colorless and transparent "except for the red of his blood and the dark pigment of hair." (If you say so, Griffin.) The ingenious student finds a method of bleaching the red blood cells so they will be colorless and still function. And, being an albino, using the serum will render him literally invisible.
There's a subtext here that Wells doesn't make explicitly and which I may be reading into the text. But wouldn't a pure white pink-eyed albino be a subject to teasing and ragging as a child, and even as an adult find himself being stared at curiously? Would Griffin jump at the chance of being invisible just to escape the annoying people looking at him like a curiosity? I'd think so, but he doesn't say this. Also, Wells has Griffin run into a vagrant named Mr Marvel and the two form an unlikely alliance (mostly Marvel being intimidated by the unseen menace. I wonder if Wells wasn't making an oblique comment about the tramp being an "invisible man" himself, with people not noticing him and ignoring his presence. Considering the author's well-known social conscience and preaching later in life, this would seem likely to me. Finally, the movie added an important detail by explaining that the formula (called "monocaine") affects the user's mind, produced a homicidal mania. This works well in the sequels, as even the nicest guy gradually becomes murderous after taking the serum. In the first film, Claude Rains has a wonderful insane rave about how the buyers of his secret "will sweep the world with invisible armies" and how he will terrorize everyone by a wave of assassinations. "Even the moon is frightened of me -- frightened to death. The whole world is frightened to death." Not in the book. Here Griffin is just a short-tempered, irritable jerk from the beginning. His constant discomfort and setbacks once invisible make him even meaner, but apparently he was always a right bastard. To finance his project, he robs his own father, who shoots himself in disgrace -- and Griffin expresses no guilt or remorse about it. ("I did not feel a bit sorry for my father. He seemed to me to be a victim of his own sentimentality.")
The most amusing and interesting part of the book are the chapters where Griffin ruefully tells Kemp all the shortcomings of being invisible. Wells obviously gave the practical drawbacks some thought. It's by no means as wonderful a condition as it seems at first, especially to one who intends to become a threat to society. For one thing, food eaten remains visible until fully digested or eliminated; so the fiend can only eat when he is going to be concealed for a few hours or people will see a tube of errr, matter hanging in mid-air (ewww). Then there is the problem of exposure. Walking around completely starkers might okay if it's San Diego in May... but Griffin first ventures out invisibly in London in January. Not so cozy.
Also, there's nothing magical keeping Griffin invisible. As he walks along, dirt and crud collect on his feet (imagine walking barefoot around a big city, ugh). "I could not go abroad in snow -- it would settle on me and expose me. Rain, too, would make me a watery outline, a glistening surface of a man -- a bubble." Quickly enough, Griffin begins to see his condition as more of a burden than anything else as people and carriages make no attempt to avoid smacking into him. Everything would be easier if there was something antidote he could take to switch back and forth, but no such luck.
The first novel by H.G. Wells, published in 1897, details the story of a strange man appearing at an inn during a snowstorm in an English village. Unbeknownst to the people in the village he is actually a scientist who, by strange means, has turned himself invisible. He tries to find a way to reverse it but fails, only to become mad with power with his newfound invisibility.
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