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Loss Of Hope In Mary's Last Man

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This miserable event of Mary’s live shows the basic interest of the novel as an example of the loss of hope.
The Last Man by Mary Shelley is the second story that I am going to be discussing in my analysis paper. Mary experienced a great degree of grief when she lost her family due to the tragedy of nature that caused a lot of damages to the society where she lived. She mentioned most things she witnessed together with her experiences with the plague that wiped many people around her. Obviously, Mary is trying to speak directly to the readers about her feelings and is going on to ask them, how to go to live when someone you love dies? The hardest part in anyone’s life when a loved one passes away. Losing loved ones could cause feeling of loneliness

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