Scream 5.

"Who can describe their horror and consternation on beholding me? Agatha fainted, and Safie, unable to attend to her friend, rushed out of the cottage. 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... my heart sank within me as with bitter sickness..." (page 129)

I'll admit this is pretty sad, but not sad enough for tears. Rejection of Mario by the family encompasses his external conflict with society. This clash between Mario and the rest of the world brings the worst in him. Whereas before Mario had natural instincts to be kind and make people happy, now his natural instincts result from bitterness and loneliness. The De Laney family was Mario's last hope for acceptance, and that clearly didn't go as planned. And when he happens to come across the brother of his creator (the man who abandoned him to misery), his anger gets the best of him and he kills the little guy :'(. (I didn't really cry there either).

Do you think maybe Shelley was really ugly and she wrote this novel to tell the world that evil in the world is a result of discriminatory practices? I guess she didn't really have to be ugly to make that point.

She really isn't that ugly.