This is a comparitive essay of the the novels, John Steinbeck's "The Pear"l and H.G Wells' "The Invisible Man". It shows how money, power and greed lead to one's downfall

It appears the throughout history, man has acquired an appetite for wealth and power due to the idea that happiness can be found from these. On the contrary, it is man's ambitions for wealth, power and other luxuries that lead to their self-destruction. Kino from John Steinbeck's The Pearl and Jack Griffin from H.G. Wells' The Invisible Man both show that their extreme desire for these things leads them to their own undoing through …

…moment of psychological instability, in order to feed their obsessions. The corruption of one's mind through greed, the destructions of one's life through the destruction of many lives, and one person's complete dysfunction, all because of one's determination and relentlessness and the belief that to have all the power and riches of the world is true happiness. Money and power do not bring happiness but instead brings out the true 'evil within' a human being.