Herbert Wells. "Invisible Man". Summary

English writer and publicist Herbert George Wells is the author of many fantastic works that have made him famous throughout the world and translated into many languages: The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, People as Gods, The Island of Dr. Moreau and others. Fantasists 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 more than a four-dimensional space-time substance.

In another book (The War of the Worlds), the writer foretold modern wars using poisonous substances and laser weapons. What did invent in his most paradoxical and popular work Wells - "Invisible Man"? The summary of the answer to this difficult question would sound like this: his hero made an attempt to change and accelerate the vital processes in the body. How seriously the scientific community relates to literary fantasies can be determined from the fact that the book caused a storm of discussion. The calculations were made by the most reasoned from the scientific point of view. The conclusion of scientists was unequivocal: the invisible state contradicts common sense, and therefore it is impossible. This dispute began in 1897, since the publication of the work, and has not yet ended.

So, Herbert Wells, "The Invisible Man", a brief summary of the novel. The protagonist, the brilliant physicist Griffin, appears in a small tavern in a small tavern, wrapped in a cloak and hiding his face under his hat, bandages and huge spectacles. His strangeness can not be noticed, it causes the curiosity of others.

Gradually, the reader will learn that the strange visitor, whom Mr. Wells describes as an invisible person from the first lines. He tells his story to a longtime friend, also a scientist named Kemp, and the reader will find out what happened to him. Griffin conducted experiments, invented an apparatus that made the living organism invisible, and a preparation for discoloration of blood. When the money for experiments was not enough, he spent the experience on himself, deciding to take such an unusual look and get a lot of benefits from it. But everything turned out to be not so simple, and his well-being is vividly described by Wells.

"Invisible Man": a brief summary of the novel about the superman

Yes, this is the task the author sets himself: an evil genius who has opposed himself to all mankind can not and must not survive. It's strange that the filmmakers allowed themselves to differently interpret the accents that Wells clearly laid out. "The Invisible Man" (a brief summary of the idea of the same film by A. Zakharov) found such an embodiment on the Russian screen: Griffin is an unintelligible talent, and Kemp is an evil genius who tries to prevent him from making great discoveries for the salvation of mankind. In the novel, everything is not so. The inverse proportionality of this is due to H. Wells himself. The invisible man (the summary can not contain all the brightness of the dialogues and discussions of the heroes) and there is that same wicked genius who wants to create a realm of terror and through the fear of people seizing power over the world. But one he is powerless, he needs shelter, food, help, and so 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. Griffin's baiting begins, and he, in turn, opens the hunt for the betrayer of his friend. The reader catches himself thinking that sometimes he sympathizes with this anti-hero, - too subtle methods of persecution are experienced, as Wells describes, an invisible person. The brief content of the book quite vividly conveys inhuman suffering, to which a man who wishes to rise above all has found himself.

The hero is very vulnerable: he is invisible only completely naked, but if he gets hurt or gets dirty, take food or water - he starts leaving traces. This is what hunters use. The roads are strewn with broken glass, the whole world has turned against him and is engaged in harassment. After all, he is only alive and unharmed, as Wells writes, an invisible man. The main characters, perhaps, are himself, an evil genius who defied mankind, and the rest of humanity. And he is defeated. Life disappears from him, and the transparent outlines of the pathetic, scarred, naked "superman", the albino Griffin, who turned his talent into evil, gradually appear on the earth. And so he lost.