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The Invisible Man stands out as possessing one of the most
complicated heroes, or perhaps anti-heroes, inliterature. Griffin
is not a naive dreamer such as Moreau's Pendick or a hapless victim
of circumstanceslike the unnamed narrator of The War of the Worlds.
He is a man of great genius and great faults. Perhapsclosest in
character to the time traveler, the invisible man wants to the
change the world through hisinvention. Griffin's genius, however,
is selfish-no one profits from his experiments, not even himself.
Athoroughly unlikeable character defined by impulsiveness,
arrogance, rudeness, and, at times, violence,Griffin is a man of
the late-nineteenth century-he is a man of the future. The
Invisible Man is not only acommentary on the great spirit of
invention that elevated the nineteenth century but also a warning
againstthe eugenic and self-interested policies that almost
destroyed the twentieth century.
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