nstitution of royal privilege and monarchy. In periods of instability, readers often prefer books, which permit them to escape into fantasy. Much of the literature of the time reflected themes of frustration, cynicism, and disenchantment. Many writers, like Wells, chose to describe different worlds, improbable happenings, and wild flights of the imagination.[3]The Invisible Man is based on two major themes; one is that of science experiments gone wrong, and the other the ignorance of society. When the experiment he was working on did not go as planned the main character, Griffin, made himself invisible because he was suspected to be a vivisectionist and he wanted to avoid punishment. After becoming invisible, he found out that there were many more disadvantages than he expected. If he had been more cautious he would have made some unimportant things invisible before he experimented on himself.After he was invisible, Griffin found out that people knew he was around even though they could not se him. For example, they could see his footprints. He also found out he could not eat because people could see food in his stomach until it was fully absorbed in his body. The major problem with his invisibility was that Griffin was not able to keep or have any friends. Without any human contact, Griffin was destined to become crazy. By the end of the novel, he is angry because society has turned against him. He refuses to admit that this is his fault because he was the one who did the experiments. He decides that he should do some killing to prove the power of his invisibility. The second theme of the novel is that society is afraid of things they do not understand or cannot explain. The reason people were afraid of the Invisible Man was the fact that nobody could explain why he was invisible. The people of the town did not give Griffin enough time to explain what had happened to him; everyone just started to chase him down. The pe...
