NOVEL- The Invisible Man CH20 At The House In Great Portland Street (Important Question Answers)

CH20 AT THE HOUSE IN GREAT PORTLAND STREET

IMPORTANT QUESTION ANSWER

Question 1: Was the experiment on the cat a complete success? Describe.

Answer: The experiment of invisibility attempted on the cat by Griffin was a great success. However, it may not be termed as a complete success. Previously, after successfully making a piece of white wool completely invisible, which was a non-living thing, Griffin tried to experiment with the cat, which was a living thing. After administering the drug the entire body of the cat became invisible except for the two eyes because the pigment Tapetum at the back of the cat’s eye did not budge.

Question 2: Describe how did Griffin manage to protect and secure his theory of invisibility.

Answer: In order to secure his theory of invisibility, he wrote the entire theory in Cipher language in three note books so that no one else could decode it and come to know about his note books along with a check book to a tramp and directed them from the nearest Post office to a house of call for letters and parcels in Great Portland Street.

Question 3: What did Griffin scare initially when he saw the landlord visiting his house along with an old Polish Jew?

Answer: When the landlord first visited the house along with the old Polish Jew Griffin was scared of exposure of his act that he had made this old woman’s cat invisible. He presumed that the old lady had made the complaint with the landlord about vanishing of the cat from his house and the landlord had come to enquire about it. Griffin was aware that the law of that country against vivisection was very severe and that he might be held liable for the missing cat. He was also scared that if he is caught by the authorities, all his research and experiment would be exposed.

Question 4: Why did Griffin decide to destroy all the evidence at the house?

Answer: Griffin had used the house taken on rent, for his scientific experiments on invisibility. He had converted the house into a laboratory with all kinds of equipment, gadgets, apparatus required to realise his research. However, the landlord after the brawl with Griffin, came up again with the eviction order. Griffin had neither time to reestablished his laboratory nor money to move out of that place at a very short notice. As a result, he decided to administer the drug of invisibility on him hurriedly and became invisible. And to prevent exposures of his acts, research laboratory, he decided to and destroy all  the evidence.