To See the Invisible Man story
An uncaring man is sentenced to a year of social isolation. Directed by: Noel Black. Story by: Robert Silverberg, Steven Barnes.
12 total · 6 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| belonging | major | Mitchell was cocky at first but then found that being isolated and ignored was really no fun at all. |
| compassion | major | It seems Mitchell learned a lesson of compassion somewhat too well as he ended up breaking the law by comforting another punishee. |
| coping with being an outcast | major | Mitchell was sentenced to being treated as invisible by the whole society for a year. |
| human self-sacrifice for another | major | Mitchell in the end took pity on the invisible woman knowing he'd be punished severely. |
| loneliness | major | Mitchell was forced to live without human contact for a year and it took its tole on his psyche. |
| the need to belong | major | Mitchell was cocky at first but then found that being isolated and ignored was really no fun at all. |
| mass surveillance | minor | Flying camera drones implied that the society we saw had extreme amounts of surveillance. |
| theft | minor | Two young men stole a car. |
| videophone | minor | Mitchell spoke with an emergency service responder over just such a device. |
| what if I could do anything I wanted without repercussions | minor | Mitchell could basically do anything he wanted for the space of a year. |