Creative Writing: The Epoch Of The Invisible Man

You have been amazingly energetic and clever,” this letter ran, “through what you stand to gain by it I cannot imagine. You are against me. For a whole day you have chased me; you have tried to rob me of a night’s rest. But I have had food in spite of you, I have slept in spite of you, and the game is only beginning. The game is only beginning. There is nothing for it, but to start the Terror. This announces the first day of the Terror. Port Burdock is no longer under the Queen, tell your Colonel of Police, and the rest of them; it is under mee--the Terror! This is day one of year one of the new epoch--the Epoch of The Invisible Man. I am Invisible Man the First. To begin with the rule will be easy. The first day there will be one execution for the sake of example--a man named Kemp. Death starts

The Invisible Man was killed to maintain a social community (Josephine 154). People could not continue their normal lives because of Griffin he was too much of a threat to them. The only option they had was to kill Griffin, he was powerful and he knew he had an advantage over everyone that he could use, almost forcing people to hate him. By the end of the story, all of Griffin’s rights have been stripped away and the government has waged war against him (Cantor 97). Griffin’s invisibility made him very powerful compared to the average person, and his desire for more power, made people fear him, he needed to be stopped. If Griffin had not trusted Kemp and told him his weaknesses, the government would have had a much harder time catching Griffin. Griffin wanted his revenge for being put in such a bad situation, and he didn’t want people to stand in his way, so he sent a letter threatening people if they tried to help Kemp to discourage them from helping Kemp, and it worked on some people, not even letting Kemp in their