Who is the protagonist and the antagonist of the Invisible Man ?

The protagonist is obviously Griffin. I would say that Kemp is the antagonist as he opposes to what Griffin does.
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I presume it is safe to call him an anti hero...
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Anti- hero is a protagonist. 
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The question was "Who is the protagonist?" 
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I would say that Griffin plays the role oa an antagonist as well as protagonist
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@Paaru That is an impossible case. An antagonist is someone who opposes the actions of the protagonist. 
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Not necessary @Sourabh..Though Griffin is the protagonist of the story,all his deeds and actions are more like that of an antagonist.
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@Paaru Not necessarily indeed. But not in this case. Griffin is not opposing his actions. As Anshuman said above, he is an Anti-Hero, which is again a protagonist. A protagonist is the central character of the story. There's no meaning in saying that he's more like of an antagonist. An antagonist need not necessarily be a villain, but should OPPOSE the protagonist. All those who oppose Griffin is an Antagonist, Kemp being the major one since he laid the "trap" to end his life.
One case where the protagonist and antagonist is the same person is when that protagonist suffers from multiple personality disorder : One personality opposes the other personality
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A protagonist doesn't have to be a good guy ...
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@Anshuman Did I say it has to be a good guy? I said that Griffin is the protagonist and he's not a good guy.
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Thought so too.Thanks for the help.
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Griffin himself is both the protagonist and antagonist of the novel The Invisible Man The story contains both external and internal conflict. In either case, both the protagonist and the antagonist is Griffin himself as he has made himself his own worst enemy. The external conflicts that Griffin causes are between Griffin and various members of the town as his invisibility is gradually discovered. People react with fear and then with terror as Griffin aggravates the situation by lashing out against people as soon as they figure him out. The people accept his existence with surprising lack of suspicion about the possibility of such an occurrence, which may be a lack on the author's part. Once they believe that he exists, the primary goal is to apprehend and imprison him. Although motives are not elaborated upon, it would seem that different people in the town have different notions of what they might do when and if they could capture the man. Griffin also ultimately sees Kemp as an enemy although he had at first believed that Kemp would be both sympathetic and cooperative. The most important conflict is internal as Griffin himself struggles to live with his situation. He rationalizes his crimes rather than making any sane attempt to get people to understand his predicament. He uses force to get people to help him and goes from bad to worse in his attempts to replenish his research materials for experiments in reversing the process that rendered him invisible. There is no real depth of character. Griffin simply runs from place to place trying to survive by increasingly decadent methods.
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