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__The Invisible Man __By H.G. Wells  media type="youtube" key="AdhXOM159gM?fs=1" height="385" width="480" align="center" __"By Heaven, Kemp, you don't know what rage is!"-Griffin __ __ Reviews: __ “On this level, // The Invisible Man //holds up badly, feeling very much tied to its era, particularly with its often painful portraits of rustic middle-Englanders. On the other hand, and less obviously, there’s a real darkness and cynicism to Wells’ work which has lost none of its impact. If he isn’t at his peak here, it’s still well worth skimming through the slow beginning and the dated comedy for the much better second act, and the first-hand story of one of science-fiction’s more brilliantly warped protagonists.” – David Tallerman “Although the plot does not hold the readers attention as it must have when it was written, the commentary on the affects of human behavior when shunned and isolated from society is very much relevant today. As an outcast the invisible man's loneliness and fear of society destroys his empathy and he seeks solace in the only thing that makes him feel alive: hatred and revenge. I could not read this transformation without thinking about the recent violence in the schools by displaced teenagers. Could they be today's invisible man?”-N.Hirsch “Roughly a century ago, H.G. Wells and Jules Verne virtually created the Science Fiction novel. In a period of less than 4 years, Wells wrote three seminal classics of the genre: [|The Time Machine] (1895), [|The Invisible Man] (1897) and [|The War of the Worlds] (1898). The Invisible Man, which owes an obvious debt to Frankenstein, is based on one of the eternal themes of mankind and one of the perennial themes of Science Fiction. First, it explores the nature of man by asking whether an invisible man would still be bound by normal morality. Second, it develops the theme of science as a two edged sword; after initially conveying great power, scientific innovation turns on its wielder, driving him mad. One hundred years later, this ambivalence about technology and scientific progress has remained a central part of our culture.” –Brothers Judd One man's strange desire to be // something //  and  // nothing //  exacts its toll by driving him completely insane. Criminally insane. In our day and age, a man like this would be labeled a threat to society, a terrorist...at the turn of the century he was, merely THE INVISIBLE MAN.- David Y. Hughes __"This is day one of year one of the new epoch,-- the Epoch of the Invisible Man.-Griffin __ media type="youtube" key="b-s7zh2Xnvg?fs=1" height="385" width="480" __"He has cut himself off from his kind. His blood be upon his own head."-Kemp __

__Why I chose the things i did: __ __quote 1: I choose this quote because you get in insight to what the invisible man is thinking. He has just got done telling the doctor, Kemp, all that he has done and felt since becoming invisible. This is the first hint that Griffin, has in fact become insane. __ __quote 2: I choose this quote because Griffin has just announced his plan, it was his plan to take over the area. He wanted a world that he was in charge. This quote helped to show how the rage that had built up inside him throughout the book had finally taken over. It gets you thinking about how there are people out there that truly do want it to be all about them. Throughout this book, the readers do see how Griffin was all about himself. __ __quote 3: I choose this quote because the readers got to see how others viewed the invisible man. Kemp has witnessed Griffin's horrible story of the murder and pain he has caused others. This quote shows us how the invisible man has in fact lost his mind, and become something other than human. He had lost all his morals. It also gets us thinking about why this all happened. Was it not from the rage that built up from the beginning? Everything that happened is because he became invisible. He cut himself from his own kind on purpose, and it drove him insane. __ __video 1: This video was from a movie made by Universal. It was one of the first's movies made about this book. I felt like this video showed the struggle that the invisible man went through within himself very well. It showed how much frustration he had. __ __video 2: This video is actually a music video for a song. I felt that the video and song went well together. The song is eerie, much like the story line is. The video uses a different name than the actual book does, but it symbolizes the same dread and scariness the book did. As the video plays, it tells the story of what the invisible man went through, and portrays it very well. __