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 …showed first 75 words of 1708 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1708 total…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.