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Discuss the major themes in the novel 'The Invisible Man

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  • Ambition and lust for unchallengeable power led Griffin to dissociate himself from his brethren and eventually caused his downfall.
  • Unregulated human aspirations and follies leads to wasted lives.  
  • Griffin was a young science student at the University College. He was a six feet albino, lacking pigment in skin, hair and eyes. He won a medal for excellence in Chemistry but his fascination for light made him drop medicine and he then took up physics.
  • He pursued an unrealistic ambition to find a formula that could make a living being invisible.
  • He followed his target with insane persistence because of which he withdrew himself from everything that could associate him with a normal life.
  • His selfish nature hindered him from sharing the credit of his work with anybody else. He worked single handedly and was therefore always alone in his great moments‟. He worked in isolation for three long years with absolutely cramped means. Eventually he found it impossible to complete this research because of paucity of money.
  • His obsession with invisibility stripped him of all human emotions and he stooped so low as to rob his own father driving him to commit suicide.  His overambition hurled him from the summit of success to the abyss of total disaster and his lust for power and money stripped him of all ethics.
  • His untamed ambition and desire and unlimited power made him absolutely inhuman and heartless. An intelligent scientist, who could have made the world a better place, instead became a menace.
  • The downfall caused by his inappropriate desires eventually drove him to his death at the hands of the people.
  • Thus the story of the Invisible Man poignantly elucidates the theme of selfishness, isolation and overambition leading to the irrevocable destruction of a capable life.


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