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How did Griffin meet his end ?
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Griffin’s story is of a man who had no conscience, was callous towards other people and simply selfcentered. He appeared to be at war with the entire mankind. All his actions stemmed from his desire to save himself, with not a thought about the pain he inflicted on others. When he was short of money he continued his experiments, without any thoughts of the consequences, he robed his own father, who committed suicide because the money was not his. He experimented on a cat, with no concern for the poor creature’s cries of pain. He threw it out and never tried to find whether it was alive or dead. He burnt down the house at Great Portland Street when the landlord and his sons found about his experiments and were horrified. He was only worried about covering his trail. After becoming invisible he committed one brutal act after another, not because they were necessary for his survival, but simply because he enjoyed doing them. The way he looted his owner of a small costume shop, and left after striking the old man on his head, spoke volumes about his inhumanity. He terrorized Marvel when he was on the run, fought with the policemen. His plan to spread reign of terror among people using his powers of invisibility really shocked Dr. Kemp. He even tried to kill him for betraying him. In his final run from the people hunting him, he killed an old man with a rod because he bumped into him. He dug his own grave when he decided to kill Colonel Adye. Before his death, he had sunk to the lowest depth a man could go and was truly a monster in human form. At the end of the novel, when Kemp was running to save his life from angry Griifin who was chasing him with the advantage of invisibility, Kemp could not run very far. Griffin seized him and began to beat him. Kemp’s cries for help brought the bystanders to the spot where Griffin was astride on the fallen Kemp. The crowd of people got hold of Griffin and beat him vigorously. Some of the blows proved fatal and he succumbed to injuries. This is how he met his end.
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