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“An invisible man is a man of power.”

H. G. Wells

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Griffin treats invisibility primarily as power over other people, foreshadowing how technological possibility without restraint becomes domination and danger in the novel.

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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.

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