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Read & copy the quotation
“An invisible man is a man of power.”
- Source
- The Invisible Man
- Date
- 1897
Meaning of “An invisible man is a man of power.”
Griffin treats invisibility primarily as power over other people, foreshadowing how technological possibility without restraint becomes domination and danger in the novel.
Where does it come from?
The Invisible Man, Chapter IX, “Mr. Thomas Marvel,” Project Gutenberg #5230. Griffin tells Thomas Marvel that “An invisible man is a man of power” while coercing the frightened stranger into becoming his helper; Chapter X begins immediately after this exchange. The line remains fictional character speech within Wells’s critique of Griffin’s power fantasy rather than a general endorsement of domination.