He winds up alone, wandering invisible and naked through the streets of London, struggling to survive out in the open, unseen by those around him. He processes himself to hide from his landlord and sets fire to the building to cover his tracks. He intends from the start to perform the process on the neighbours' cat and then on himself, but is forced to rush his experiments due to persistent intrusion from his landlord, who is suspicious of his activities and considers him to be a vivisectionist. Working as a recluse in his flat, Griffin invents a formula to bend light and decrease the refractive index of physical objects, making them invisible. To finance his experiments, Griffin robs his own father, which drives the father to commit suicide (because the money had not even been his own).

To ensure that he gets sole credit for the discovery, he leaves the university and moves to a dingy apartment to continue his experiments alone. He believes he is on the verge of a great scientific discovery, but feels uncomfortable working under his professor named Hobbema (whom he calls a 'thief of ideas'). Griffin is a gifted old medical student with albinism who studies optical density. Unlike the character in the 1933 film, the Griffin of the novel is possibly a psychopath or sociopath even before he makes himself invisible. He succeeds, but he finds himself unable to reverse the process. The formula entails taking opium and another drug, which makes his blood boil, then processing his body in a radiator engine. Griffin is a brilliant research scientist who discovers a formula for making a human being invisible. A new film, loosely inspired by the original novella and the original film, again titled The Invisible Man, was released in 2020. Griffin and the 1933 film have become iconic in popular culture, particularly in regards to horror fiction. The film spawned a number of sequels that feature different invisible characters. The most famous non-literary incarnation of Griffin is portrayed by Claude Rains in the 1933 film The Invisible Man, distributed by Universal Pictures. The character and variations thereof has been featured in various media, including films, television series and merchandise. Unable to reverse the invisibility process, he descends into insanity and becomes a criminal. After becoming invisible, he wraps his head in bandages and dons a pair of goggles or glasses in order to enable others to see him. In the original work, Griffin is a scientist whose research in optics and experiments into changing the human body's refractive index to that of air results in him becoming invisible. Wells' 1897 science fiction novel The Invisible Man.

Griffin, also known as the Invisible Man, is a fictional character who first appeared as the protagonist of H. Griffin, portrayed by Claude Rains in the 1933 film in an invisible state wearing an outfit to enable others to see him

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