Frankenstein: Tradegy

"Felix darted forward, and with supernatural force tore me from his father, to whose knees I clung; in a transport of fury, he dashed me to the ground and struck me violently with a stick." pg. 129

This novel is so much of a tragedy that Shakespeare could have written it! I think that this scene is the saddest in the whole novel. The monster spends months helping the De Lacey family, watching them, learning from them and loving them and the moment he tries to make contact, they reject him like every other person has. The poor monster has never had the human contact he craved and that has to be the most tragic of all. The novel doesn't stop there though. Of course the monster has to kill a little boy and frame a young woman out of fury and of course he has to kill Henry, Elizabeth, and the father. The tragic moments keep piling up until then end when Frankenstein dies and the monster stands over him and asks the body for forgiveness. The definition of a tragedy is when the heroic character dies, but in this novel, not only does the heroic character die, but almost everyone else does too. It is a depressing novel, but it also clearly show some truths about the human race.