Frankenstein - Chapter 14

We meet the venerable De Lacey, once a man of affluence in the heart of France, and his children, each bred with a noble heart, now shadowed by hardship largely through the actions of an unfortunate Turk. Each character is sketched with a raw humanity, their capacities for love, heroism, and ultimately betrayal, woven into an intricate tapestry of fate and circumstance. Felix, introduced earlier in hushed tones and woeful countenance, emerges here as a tragic hero, a man whose indignation at...