People in the streets screamed. They sprang off the pavement. It passed in shouts - ''The invisible man is coming! The invisible man!'' What does the incident suggest about the people of burdock?
People in the streets screamed. They sprang off the pavement. It passed in shouts - ''The invisible man is coming! The invisible man!'' What does the incident suggest about the people of burdock?
The people of Burdock were frightened by the prospect of the invisible man but more than that it was a sensational thing to occur in their sleepy village. It was almost as if they had plunged back into the dark ages of ignorance in the thirteenth century as Dr Kemp rued. The people of Burdock had made the man into an occult figure, almost like a bogeyman who was coming after them, they felt an abject terror of a man who could not be seen and that was precisely what gave him the power to terrorise them. People screamed and sprang off the pavement, they were simple village folk without much knowledge of science and quite ignorant of the possibility of any such thing as an invisible man. They probably thought he was the devil incarnate, they bolted into their houses and slammed the doors behind them. A terrible fear seized them, almost as if it had physically strode into their houses and knocked into their hearts.
The people of Burdock were frightened by the prospect of the invisible man but more than that it was a sensational thing to occur in their sleepy village. It was almost as if they had plunged back into the dark ages of ignorance in the thirteenth century as Dr Kemp rued. The people of Burdock had made the man into an occult figure, almost like a bogeyman who was coming after them, they felt an abject terror of a man who could not be seen and that was precisely what gave him the power to terrorise them. People screamed and sprang off the pavement, they were simple village folk without much knowledge of science and quite ignorant of the possibility of any such thing as an invisible man. They probably thought he was the devil incarnate, they bolted into their houses and slammed the doors behind them. A terrible fear seized them, almost as if it had physically strode into their houses and knocked into their hearts.
