While its antecedents the time machine and the island of doctor moreau were composed utilizing first person storytellers wells embraces a third person target perspective in the invisible man the tale is viewed as powerful and built up wells as the father of sci-fi. The Invisible man the title alludes to is griffin a researcher who has given himself to an investigation into optics and creates an approach to change a body refractive index to that of air s[ it neither assimilates nor reflects light and in this way gets imperceptible or invisible.