Isolation In The Invisible Man

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In H.G. Wells science fiction novel, The Invisible Man, a scientist named Griffin manages to turn himself invisible. He then causes terror in a small English town called Iping trying to find a cure. It was here where Griffin isolates himself from the outside world in an attempt to escape from people. Griffin becomes isolated in all parts of his life due to his high intelligence, his invisibility, and his lack of effort to gain social relationships.
The Invisible Man’s high intelligence compared to the town leads him into isolation. When Mr. Henfrey was fixing the clock for Griffin in the Coach and Horses, Griffin snaps at him to stop stalling.
“All you’ve got to do is fix the hour-hand on its axle. You’re simply humbugging-”(Page 31). By telling Mr. Henfrey exactly how to “fix the hour-hand”, he shows that he was at a higher level of intelligence which makes him isolated. Another time Griffin shows isolates himself because of his intelligence was when the narrator was describing the village and what the people thought of Griffin (aka the Invisible Man.)
“But whatever they thought of him, people of Iping, on the whole, agreed in disliking him. His irritability, though it might have been comprehensible to an urban brain worker, was an amazing thing to these quiet Sussex villagers” (Page 54). Since there were no “urban brain …show more content…
When Griffin and Dr. Kemp are talking and thinking of ideas, Griffin says that “It would not be difficult. There a man might always be invisible-and yet live. And do things” (Page 262) Griffin was trying to isolate himself instead of trying to get people to understand him. In another conversation in the Coach and Horses, Griffin reveals why he always seems to appear out of nowhere . “You don’t understand, he said, who I am or what I am. I’ll show you” (Page 82). Griffin revealing that he was invisible isolates him from the people in the town because they see him as a freak of
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