Ignorance In Invisible Man
way for one individual to harm another”. As the title of the novel ‘Invisible Man’ suggests, it is a take on the invisible threat that technology and science possess to mankind which human beings are still having difficulty in grasping. It deals with the threat of immense power that science bestows on us but the converse of which is that we do not know how to control it without harming anyone. In the novel, the people of Burdock were frightened by the prospect of the invisible man but more than that it was a sensational thing to occur in their sleepy village. It was almost as if they had plunged back into the dark ages of ignorance in the thirteenth century as Dr. Kemp. The people of Burdock had made the man into an occult figure, almost