Invisible Man Griffin Isolation

The narrator from the “Yellow Wallpaper,” a young woman, taken as a bride by a rich and influential doctor. He keeps her in a large room on the second story of their rented house because he feels that she suffers from a mental disorder in which isolation will help. The walls in the room that she occupies is covered by an unsightly yellow wallpaper that contains a very hectic floral pattern. This paper proves to help keep her sane as she lives her life, sheltered from the world, invisible to most. The protagonist of “The Invisible Man,” Griffin, is a scientist that proves to be very unique both in his situation and his ever changing personality. Griffin occupies a room at an Inn in a small rural village where he tries make himself visible again …show more content…
Griffin concocted a potion and has made himself become physically invisible from the world. It is unknown why he has done this but in reading the story it is evident that Griffin has a need for power and control. Becoming invisible to Griffin made him feel very powerful and in control, at least it did in the beginning. Because of the decisions he has made he has molded himself into the person he has become. He made his “concoction” to be invisible, he did this without help and cannot blame anyone for the resulting problem but himself. Based upon his activities throughout the story we see he is a man of reduced morals, everything is inadequate and he is always wanting more at whatever the cost. After becoming invisible he chooses to conduct himself in certain ways, ways that most individuals with higher moral standards would not. He uses his “condition” as justification for his outlandish and unruly behaviors. He demonstrates himself to be very egotistical and arrogant at numerous times throughout the entire …show more content…
She is taken as a spouse by a man that feels he is authoritative and powerful because of his education and the time frame in which they live. With this power he begins to manipulate his wife, telling her she is psychologically ill turning her into a shell of a women. He eventually keeps her almost like a domesticated animal controlling her every move in her “best” interest. I don’t know if these were the narrator’s husbands intentions or if her really though he was helping, it seems however that he made her “condition” more than it had to

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