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 t...