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How Does Griffin Get The Power In The Invisible Man

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Everyone wonders about what it would be like to be invisible. In H.G. wells The Invisible man Wells explores the effect that invisibility would have on a person. In The Invisible man Griffin the main character turns himself invisible with a science experiment he was conducting. Throughout the book griffin is plagued with a series of increasingly dangerous events which leads to his death. The Invisible man (Griffin) does not change behaviour when he gets the power of invisibility Griffin doesn't start doing crimes without what he feels is necessary, He only tries to hurt people when they betray him, and when griffin gets his power he ties to get rid of his power and not what he could do with it.

The first thing that shows that power didn’t change griffin is that he only tries to get rid of his invisibility. Another analysis stated that Most of the story is driven by griffins want to become visible again.(Student Resources in context) This shows that in the end all griffin wanted was to become visible. “And directly the crates were unpacked, the stranger went to the window and set to work.”(Wells …show more content…

Student Resources in Context stated that the first time that the invisible man really uses his power for personal gain was to steal from a house near the inn he had been staying in. (the invisible man) At this point griffin was still trying to cure himself of invisibility and stole the money to help pay for the room he had been staying in while conducting his research. “Through the crack in the door he could see the desk and the open drawer and the candle burning on the desk. But the robber he could not see.”(Wells 25) Griffin must not have wanted to have gotten caught so he went in only his invisible skin but if griffin had wanted to he could have been able to steal manny of the valuables in the house he

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