Wells’ novel, The Invisible Man, Language ascertains who holds the dominant or in charge position in the relationships experienced throughout the book. One of the major relationships in Wells’ book it that between Griffin, or the Invisible Man, and Mr. Thomas Marvel. The Invisible man encounters the poor Mr. Marvel, when he is ran out of the town of Iping. He takes Mr. Marvel under his wing and uses him to go back to Iping and gather his books of research and his clothes. During the trip back in Marvel is caught and takes off running. After the Invisible Man attacks Marvel’s pursuers and relocates his helper Griffin chews out Marvel for running …show more content…
I went to bury him. My mind was still on my research, and I did not lift a finger to save his character. I remember the funeral, the cheap hearse, the scant ceremony, the windy frost-bitten hillside, and the old college friend of his who read the service over him,-- a shabby, black, bent, old man with a snivelling cold. (Wells 84)
As Griffin recounts his father’s funeral he talks down upon it. He recounts the cold and lackluster service, but the poor quality of his father’s funeral was due to the fact that Griffin stole all his money. Griffin sees himself as dominant and more powerful over his father since he was able to take with consequence, kind of like how Rufus has power over the slave on his plantation. Griffin’s father saw him as oppressive and tyrannical and was driven to suicide by his own son. Griffin’s father would relate to Alice who has had her rights and children taken away by Rufus and she was driven to suicide as