Question

Compare and contrast the character of Dr Kemp and Invisible Man ok

Answer 1

Griffin was alienated from his peers as a child both because he was abjectly poor and because he was an albino whose very physical appearance marked him out as different. However, he was also a brilliant chemist who had won the medal for that subject at school. On the one hand, Griffin was extremely talented and had the ambition to match his talent. On the other hand, his physical and social circumstances were strongly against his chances of success. In his words - "You have only to think! And I, a shabby, poverty-struck, hemmed-in demonstrator, teaching fools in a provincial college, might suddenly become - this." While it was impossible for Griffin to resist that temptation, Kemp never came across such a temptation, not only because he had not made the same scientific breakthrough, but also because his success came to him easily. If not the hero in the conventional sense of the word, Griffin is definitely the protagonist of the novel, something that is evidenced by its title.