HG Wells. "Invisible Man". Summary

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English writer and publicist Herbert George Wells is the author of many fantastic works that made him famous all over the world and translated into many languages: "The Time Machine", "The War of the Worlds", "People Are Like Gods", "The Island of Dr. Moreau" and others. Fantasts have repeatedly predicted incredible scientific discoveries, this is a well-known fact. Wells, by the way, long before Einstein and Minkowski showed in the novel "The Time Machine" that the real world is nothing but a four-dimensional space-time substance.

In another book ("War of the Worlds"), the writer predicted modern wars using poisonous substances and laser weapons. What did Wells come up with in his most paradoxical and popular work - "The Invisible Man"? A brief summary of the answer to this difficult question would sound like this: his hero made an attempt to change and speed up the life processes in the body. How seriously the scientific community takes writer's fantasy can be inferred from the fact that the bookcaused a storm of discussion. The calculations were made the most reasoned from a scientific point of view. The conclusion of the scientists was unequivocal: the invisible state is contrary to common sense, which means it is impossible. This dispute began in 1897, from the moment the work was published, and has not yet ended.

So, HG Wells, The Invisible Man, a summary of the novel. The main character, the brilliant physicist Griffin, appears in a small tavern on a chilly day, wrapped in a raincoat and hiding his face under a hat, bandages and huge glasses. It is impossible not to notice his strangeness, he arouses the curiosity of others.

Gradually, the reader learns that the strange visitor, whom G. Wells describes from the first lines, is an invisible man. He tells his story to an old friend, also a scientist named Kemp, and the reader will then find out what happened to him. Griffin conducted experiments, invented an apparatus that makes a living organism invisible, and a drug for bleaching blood. When there was not enough money for the experiments, he conducted the experiment on himself, deciding to take on such an unusual appearance and get a lot of benefits from it. But everything turned out to be not so simple, and Wells vividly describes his ordeal.

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Yes, this is exactly the task the author sets himself: the evil genius, who opposed himself to all mankind, cannot and should not survive. It is strange that filmmakers allowed themselves to interpret accents differently, which are clearlyarranged by Wells. "The Invisible Man" (a summary of the idea of the film of the same name by A. Zakharov) found such an embodiment on the Russian screen: Griffin is a misunderstood talent, and Kemp is an evil genius who is trying to prevent him from making great discoveries to save humanity. It's not like that in the novel. G. Wells himself has an inversely proportional relation to this. The invisible man (the summary cannot contain all the brightness of the dialogues and discussions of the characters) is the same evil genius who wants to create a reign of terror and, through the fear of people, seize power over the world. But he is powerless alone, he needs shelter, food, help, and therefore he came to Kemp's house.

He, however, is not going to help him, he understands that the madman must be stopped, and calls the police in secret from his guest. The persecution of Griffin begins, and he, in turn, opens the hunt for a friend who betrayed him. The reader catches himself thinking that sometimes he sympathizes with this anti-hero - he experiences too sophisticated methods of persecution, as Wells describes, the invisible man. The summary of the book quite vividly conveys the inhuman suffering that a person found himself in, who wished to rise above everyone.

The hero is very vulnerable: he is invisible only completely naked, but if he gets hurt or dirty, takes food or water, he starts to leave traces. This is what hunters use. The roads are strewn with broken glass, the whole world is up in arms against him and is persecuting him. After all, he is only alive and unharmed, as Wells writes, an invisible man. The main characters are probablyit is he himself, the evil genius who challenged humanity, and all the rest of humanity. And he is defeated. Life leaves him, and gradually the transparent outlines of a pathetic, wounded, naked “superman”, an albino Griffin, who turned his talent as a scientist into evil, gradually appear on the earth. And so he lost.