Tragic Hero In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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The Hero is not the main character in this book but the monster is. He is not a monster but a creature with a warming heart and no knowledge of the world he was animated in. A tragic hero is someone who fights and gains nothing for it. The so called monster was tormented throughout his life span. He had no one to talk to or comfort with. Victor left his creation to rot, not thinking twice of the consequences of his actions. There is no one to blame on all the deaths that happened but victor.

One of the great judgements that the monster made was to himself, despising his appearance and his poor judgement about humans trying to win them over with kindness.”I should first win their favour and afterwards their love”(100) this shows that the monster is willing to try to make peace with humans even after his creator victor didn’t acknowledge him as a gift but instead refers him as the devil.the monster never felt love and compassion until he meant someone who accepted him “I felt sensations of a peculiar and pleasure such as I had never before experienced” (93) The monster lived with guilt and embarrassment of all the humans that were involved in his killing at the end of the story. “He was soon borne away by the waves and last in the darkness and distance”(206)
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“I am a wretch. I have murdered and lovely and the helpless, I have the innocent as they slept and grasped to death his throat who never injured me or any other living thing”(204)the monster takes the anger of his master abandoning him and starts killing people dear to him for revenge. “If you will comply with my conditions, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with blood of your remaining