Violence In The Invisible Man

“And I know I am dead on the surface, but I am screaming underneath.” These lyrics are from a Coldplay song called “Amsterdam.” Chris Martin the lead singer, is presenting that he feels as if his emotions are invisible. Since his emotions are invisible, he is screaming inside of his head to get across how he is feeling. Just like the Chris Martin, Griffin, from H.G. Well’s novel “The Invisible Man” feels dead on the surface Griffin can not relate to society because he is albino and not like the others. This rejection of soceity makes him feel dead on the surface and results in several drastic measures to make him feel “seen”. The author of the Invisible Man compares society to the main charcter of the story, dives into emotions that other authors …show more content…
By looking at the evidence cited above, one can see that this peculiar book is going to contain violence. Once Griffin becomes invisible he begins to steal and show acts of violence, such as killing. The person telling the story is not H.G. Wells, the author known for his violent books, but an omniscient/objective person. The author chose this kind of point of view because it makes the reader feel like the story is real, as if they are part of the plot. The person telling the story has first hand accounts and only mentions things that he/she was told;showing why he/she didn’t talk about Whicksteed’s death. ”Of course we can know nothing of the details of the encounter”(Wells 95). This evidence proves that the person telling this story bases his/her evidence off of first hand accounts; there were no details because there were no witnesses to provide evidence. In this book, H.G. Wells wants us to understand that emotions and frustrations are common in humans. The invisible man in the story is someone who can classify himself as an everyday person with frustrations. “ ‘ I slept during the forenoon, pulling the sheet over my eyes to shut the light out…”(Wells