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When first reading the Invisible Man, readers will find the title itself resonant, dangerous; although its resonance may have become a little muted through repetition after more than a century in print. Simmering in their mind are mainly two questions, one theological and one sociological: What if a man could be invisible yet still active in society? And, what would this man do without the public observing? .
Griffin, the young chemist and physicist, discovers the secret of invisibility and becomes transparent himself. When imagining an invisible man walking on the street freely, we may feel amused and curious first due to the fact that many of us have ever fancied ourselves invisible "sometimes we find ourselves naked going through the crowd in our dreams. But later on the second thought, we will find a lack of both privacy and security because an invisible man means a disembodied voice, a walking emptiness who can witness whatever you do, a threat both anarchic and extremely terrifying, which means he can do anything he wants on one hand and he could be right next to you on the other hand. Furthermore, people will consider him as a threat to the human beings' normal life in which people live harmoniously partly because they can keep an eye on each other. As the sociologists think, in nearly every society, being seen and seeing may be the basis for the social morality. So a transparent man also means one will have the ability of throwing off all the bounds of ordinary morality and living in an individual universe by himself out of the society. .
It is obvious that all of these cannot be accepted by the public. As mortal people think, the mental threat of the invisible man to their everyday life overweighs the invisible man himself. Although the invisible man at first think he will not do harm to the public, he is not accepted by the public anyway. People can bear when the government deprives them of their possessions, but they cannot tolerate an invisible man doing so.