Tragedy In Frankestein

Everyone makes relationships to fulfil their desires. As relationships are made, people look for positivity and happiness that they can get from the relationships. Some relationships turn out well but unfortunately not everybody becomes successful. In “Frankestein” and “The descent”, the protagonist and the others do not develop a positive relationship or at least they cannot because of society. The protagonist and the others do not have a cooperative relationship which is the main factor of tragedy. Tragedy is driven in Frankeistein through the hatred relationship between the monster and Victor or the submissive relationship of women to Frankeistein. Lastly, in the descent, tragedy is struck by the violent interactions between the humanoid …show more content…
From earlier ages, women are seen as powerless and gentle, bound to do household chores and sources of entertainment for men . Society makes these statements under the power of male and Frankestein follows very thoroughly. Frankestein gives no importance to women and loses out the support he could gotten to overcome tragedy. Frankestein says, “she presented Elizabeth to me as her promised gift, I, with childish seriousness, interpreted her words literally and looked upon Elizabeth as mine--mine to protect, love, and cherish. All praises bestowed on her I received as made to a possession of my own”, Frankestein treats Elizabeth as a property and not really giving her the value of a real human. It would have been the best, if Frankestein treats her equally and shares everything with her. His consideration of Elizebeth being submissive, creates a lack of communication because he already thinks her incapable of thinking deeply, As a result, Frankestein makes Elizebeth the victim of his tragedy and die. Added to considering women as gentle and property, Frankestein also shows he is very controlling over women. He believes in male power and tries to rule the world …show more content…
Society makes the decision to scale down others which in this case the beasts compared to humans. The beasts have different behaviors than humans which is considered abnormal. In the descent, the beasts are almost like humans and they live under the cave which is an obvious reason to be dangerous. They lack the knowledge of civilization and when they meet Sarah, they attack her. The difference between Civilization and wilderness plays an important to put a barrier between Sarah and the beasts. They both enjoy their life differently. Wilderness provides enjoyment of completely opposite to civilization. Secondly, the protagonist is very scared of the beasts for their vicious appearance. Disgust developes in Sarah and she is not ready to stand them anymore. Her desire to get rid of them out of her sight makes her fight with the beasts which is not a cooperative relationship. Another reason for not having a cooperative relationship is when Sarah crosses her limit. She comes to a territory where she should not be. As a result, everything force within that territory is against her especially the beasts. She and her friends get many warnings but she does not stop or at least not able to stop because of her friend Juno. Therefore, the beasts are unhappy and give her a punishment by attacking her and injuring her. So when the protagonist crosses the limit that is set by others, others become more