A
Review of “The Invisible Man” Novel Works By H. G. Wells.
And
Analysis by Indry Frisiskawaty Ibrahm H.
Introduction
The Invisible
Man is a scientist novel and tells about a man who was changed himself be
invisible. The invisible Man was published by C. Arthur Pearson in UK on 1897
with the original book is 147 pages, and PDF 113 pages. This novel is written
by H. G. Wells (Herbert George Wells), he began his formal education at the
Commercial Academy for Young Gentlemen. The academy was meant to train its
young wards to become shopkeepers or clerks. The academy also instilled its
students with a distrust of the working class—a fear that would never
dissipated for Wells. In 1880 when H. G. Wells was fourteen, he relocated to
Wookey, Somerset, to help a relative run a school as a pupil-teacher.
H. G. Well is
sometimes called the father of science fiction because of his best fiction
books such as The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The Island of Doctor Moreau and so on. He created a lot of fiction and nonfiction novels such
as . This novel was created because of many people want to be an invisible man,
for this reason, H. G. Wells created this story. This novel has been adopted in
many films and created a lot of novel with the same theme but with different
versions.
Summary
There
is an invisible man named Griffin and he is really stranger, he covered all of
his body. The invisible came to Iping and stay at inn named “Coach and Horse”,
that inn is belongs to Mr. and Mrs. Hall, they are really kind. The invisible
man is really unsociable, he spent his time in his room. Someday, a thousand of
strange glass bottles arrive that The Invisible Man called is luggage, it made
many people in the Iping suspected and told about him.
One
day, a mysterious burglary occurred at the vicarage, it was done by The
Invisible Man, he did not have money and must be pay his bill to Mrs. Hall. He
utilizes his invisibility to steal in the village, and finally he fled to
downs. He met with Marvel, and Marvel helped him to back to the village to take
the notes of his experiment. But Marvel betrayed him by reported the invisible
man to the police, then it became the mutual action pursue between Marvel and
The Invisible Man, ultimately Marvel be saved by local people and the Invisible
Man escaped from the pursuit of police.
Eventually
Griffin met with Dr. Kemp, Dr. Kemp is known in medical school. The Griffin
told to Dr. Kemp how he had become invisible. Griffin intends to get revenge by
stealing at Iping, but with Dr. Kemp, he plans to terrorize the nation.
Unfortunately, Dr. Kemp who know about the bad plan of Griffin decided to
report the Invisible Man to the police, by helping of the mass, Griffin is
captured and attacked. In the end of this story he died, and the notes of his
experiment is secretly kept by Marvel.
Analyze
The
language style from this book is good, but when entered the dialog, there are
many abbreviations that confuses the reader. As on the “the pour soul’s had an
accident or an op’ration or somethin’,” said Mrs Hall. On chapter 1, page
5. On page 6 “… tumbled on it in the
‘ayfield, and, bless m!...”. on page 7 “I’d be glad if you’d give th’ old clock
in the parlour a bit of a look. ‘Tis going, and it strikes well and hearty; but
the hour-hand won’t do nuthin’ but point at six.” And “wouldn’t let en bite
me, knows”; “’Tasn’t right have such
dargs”; “what_’e_bite ‘n for, than?”. It
indicates that the style of language used by the figures in the story did not
use English well. This makes the readers especially foreign readers struggled
to interpret the sentence uttered by the figures in the story.
The
plot of the story is round but little bit flat, at the beginning of the story,
when the invisible man comes to Iping and do a lot of things that are
unexpected. This keeps the reader interested to read it again, but the longer,
the story will just tell you about how the invisible man do things and so on.
It makes the reader bore, but with a short story, it is about 100 pages, the
novel is not too boring especially in the end of story is pretty stressful with
the death of Griffin in the hands of citizens. This story was developed by H.
G. Wells with third-person point of view.
This
story is occurred in winter day in a village in England named Iping, in the end
and in the beginning of story is very stressful and scared. Crisis of this
story is when Marvel report the Invisible Man to the police, and climax of this
story is when Griffin started to steal the village and when Dr. Kemp report him
to the police and occurred the pursuit and the result in chaos. And the
reorientation of this story is when Griffin caught and his body began to
appear, but residents generously covered his body and took her to a house.
The
portrayal of character of this story is great, every character was explained in
detail, as well as with their posture, and also his face, so it's easy to make
the readers imagination about stores that are in the story. But there
are some characters that are created only fleetingly and after it disappears as
the character of Cuss. However there are some partial sentences that are
difficult to understand, and not found meaning in the dictionary, such as “I am
rare sorry the darg--“, “George! you gart whad a wand”, and “tas the truth what Henfrey sez. 'E's not in uz room,
'e en't and the front of door's onbolted”. The sentence is hard
to understand because of the language that the writer used in the dialog.
In
the same case, the writer always use the symbol “--“ in the story, until the
end of this story, the reader did not know what the purposes of that sign. There
are several dialog does not list who was talking, it also makes the reader
confuse.
Conclusion and suggestion
This
novel is good, as can be seen many author who was inspired to create a story
with a similar theme and this story has taken on a lot of movie. Especially in 18th
century there are already author which created books with this themes, it is
really inspiring, and it is good if anyone like to read this book because it is
still genuine. But for the young people certainly want to choose novel that are
lighter and do not give the impression of boring. From this reason, I suggest
if the reader want to read a novel with works and great inventions, you can get
to read this novel, it is just about 100 pages. But if the reader want to read
the fresh novel with the long story, you can read the other novel of H. G.
Wells, because he has a lot of works.
Refferences:
Anonymous. The Literature Network. The Invisible
Man. Web on June 14, 2014. From http://www.online-literature. com/wellshg/invisible/
Anonymous. The Invisible Man Summary." Shmoop.com.
Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 14 Jun. 2014. From
http://www.shmoop.com/ invisible-man-wells/summary. html
fyi "You gart whad a wand?" means "you got what i want?":)
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