The Invisible Man story
A scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light and thus becomes invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but fails in his attempt to reverse it.
13 total · 2 choice · 7 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| invisibility ability | choice | Jack Griffin made himself invisible and was unable to reverse the condition. |
| personal invisibility cloak | choice | Jack Griffin discovers how to make himself invisible. |
| engaged couple | major | Flora Cranley and Jack Griffin. |
| mad scientist stereotype | major | Jack Griffin invented an invisibility serum that he used on himself and then went mad. |
| playing God with nature | major | Jack Griffin confessed on his deathbed that he had meddled with things that man must leave along. |
| romantic love | major | Flora Cranley and Jack Griffin. |
| the desire for fame | major | Jack Griffin was motivated to invent invisibility cloak by a desire to be a famous scientist and become a powerful person in the world. |
| the human capacity for good and evil | major | Jack Griffin became immoral when he was invisible and not accountable for his behavior. |
| the lust for power | major | Jack Griffin wished to rule the world after becoming invisible and hatched an elaborate plot of world domination. |
| coping with a loved one being in peril | minor | Flora Cranley was distraught over the disappearance of her fiancée Jack Griffin. |