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Write a short note on Griffin\'s character |
| Answer» Griffin wasthe lead character in the novel. He was an albino. Though he had many greatqualities, yet he had many flaws in his character. Griffin was a man who had noconscience, was callous towards other people and simply self-centered. Heappeared to be at war with the entire mankind. All his actions stemmed from hisdesire to save himself, with not a thought of care and sympathy for others. Hedid many mean acts in the novel. When he was short of money he continued hisexperiments, without any thoughts of the consequences, he robed his own father,who committed suicide because the money was not his. He attended his father’sfuneral without feeling sorry for his own act; instead he blamed his father forbeing a sentimental fool. He experimented on a cat, with no concern for thepoor creature’s cries of pain. He threw it out and never tried to find whetherit was alive or dead. He burnt down the house at Great Portland Street when thelandlord and his sons found about his experiments and were horrified. He wasonly worried about covering his trail.Even afterbecoming invisible he committed one brutal act after another, not because theywere necessary for his survival, but simply because he enjoyed doing them. Theway he looted his owner of a small costume shop, and left after striking theold man on his head, spoke volumes about his inhumanity. He terrorized Marvelwhen he was on the run, fought with the policemen. His plan to spread reign ofterror among people using his powers of invisibility really shocked Dr. Kemp.He even tried to kill him for betraying him. In his final run from the peoplehunting him, he killed an old man with a rod because he bumped into him. | |