-Griffin driven by unbridled ambition
-continued his march towards supremacy unmindful of the havoc he caused in the lives of others.
-not a struggle for survival but to satiate his whims and fancies.
-Griffin nurtured ambition to amass wealth , got comforts of life and eliminated whosoever came his way
-this mania took him nowhere; met his death. -arrogance and pride, root cause of his destruction.
-went from obsession to fanaticism to insanity to unleash a ‘Reign of Terror’
-scientist with a perverted mind.
-ambition became his greatest foe.
-science without humane values.
(any other relevant point)
(any 6 points)
Detailed Answer :
Griffin is a gifted young university medical student with albinism, who studied optical density. He believes he is on the verge of a great scientific discovery but feels uncomfortable working under his professor. To ensure, that he gets sole credit for his discovery, he leaves university and moves to a dingy apartment to continue his experiments alone.
To finance his experiments, Griffin robs his own father. As a result, his father commits suicide afterwards because the money had not been his own. Working exclusively in his flat, he invents a formula to bend light and reduce the refractive index of physical objects, making them invisible. He intends from the start to perform the process on himself but is forced to rush his experiments due to persistent intrusion from his landlord, who is suspicious of his activities. He processes himself to hide from his landlord and sets fire to the building to cover his tracks. He winds up alone, invisibly wandering the streets of London, struggling to survive out in the open, unseen by those around him. To make himself visible again, he steals some clothes from a dingy backstreet theatre shop, including a trench coat and a hat. He wraps his head in snow to conceal his invisibility, covering his eyes with large, dark goggles. He takes up residence in the Coach and Horses Inn in the village of Iping, so that he can reverse his experiment in a quiet environment, but complications arise with the locals being unnerved by his appearance. As a result, his progress slows and he has insufficient money to satisfy the pub owners. To pay the bill, Griffin burgles the home of Reverend Bunting. The police pursue him, and he reveals his invisibility by throwing off his clothes and thereafter, escaping away.
Now driven insane by his inability to reverse the experiment, Griffin seeks assistance from a tramp named Thomas Marvel. He asks Marvel to carry his stolen money for him, but Marvel runs away with the money. Griffin pursues him to the town of Port Burdock, where he runs into his old schoolmate Dr. Kemp. Griffin attempts to convince Kemp to be his visible partner and help him begin a reign of terror. Kemp, rather than assisting the crazed Invisible Man, alerts Colonel Adye of the Port Burdock police.
Furious, Griffin vows to kill Kemp. Kemp rallies the people of Port Burdock who find and overcome Griffin. Griffin is killed by navvies. The invisibility wears off in death and Griffin’s corpse becomes visible again. His story attests to the fact that misdirected and self-serving ambition remains an exercise in futility.
