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Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Mineola, Dover Publications, 2001.

Ishiguro, Kazuo. Never Let Me Go. New York, Vintage Books, 2006.

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. Mineola, Dover Publications, 1994.

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The monster also experiences trauma that leads him to his actions similarly to the theme of trauma leading to bad judgement and actions found with Tess and Ruth. The monster faces the trauma of knowing that he will never belong in society because of the way he looks. This feeling is amplified by the fact that Victor abandoned the monster and all the times the monster was yelled at for simply being helpful. The trauma of being yelled at causes the monster to lash out the same way that Tess lashes out and kills the man who raped her and Ruth yells about how the clones come from trash. Frankenstein cannot understand why the monster lashes out against Victor, yet the readers still feel empathy for the monster simply because readers know the whole story and how the trauma influenced the monster's actions.

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After the monster experiences being left by Victor, gets yelled at simply for rescuing a girl, and sees how Felix thinks the monster is ugly, the monster lashes out.

“From that moment I declared ever-lasting war against the species, and, more than all, against him who had formed me, and sent me forth to this insupportable misery” (Shelley 97).

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Lastly, in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the monster also experiences a trauma because of Victor's abandonment and how people reprimand the monster, and these experiences justify why the killing of all of Victor's loved ones.

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Tess' trauma causes her to kill Alec because the trauma is so hard for her to eliminate that she must get rid of all memories of the horrible event. Even though many people might think this is horrible and Tess took it a little too far, Tess actually feels a sense of relief after she kills Alec, and readers can empathize with the horrible act because of the fate and the trauma that Tess has gone through. Trauma causes people to do horrible things that might seem unjust, but readers must see the characters point of view and when readers take a closer look at the reason why Tess killed Alec, they can see that Tess was only trying to get rid of the horrible memory that took over her life.

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After Tess kills Alec, Tess feels a sense of relief because Tess has been living with the trauma of the rape all of her life, and eliminating the person who took Tess' innocence away from her causes Tess to feel free.

"Don't think of what's past!... I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what to-morrow has in store" (314).

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Similarly, Tess in Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy experiences the trauma of rape, and the feelings from the rape justify why Tess kills Alec to receive freedom from the trauma.

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What is that main driving thought that influences their behavior... is there a common thread?

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Great start, incorporate the texts and your approach into your thesis

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Traumatic Memories and thoughts lead to reckless behavior that humans judge before knowing the story.

Since Ruth knows that she is different than normal people because she is a clone, Ruth reacts in a mean way and makes Kathy angry by saying they come from trash
To many this may seem rude but because Ruth has experienced the trauma of being different, her actions and how she reacts to situations involving the trauma will be more severe. This shows how trauma affects her mind because she is so used to thinking that she does not matter since she is a clone, the traumatic memory and bad thoughts about herself causes ruth to lash out.

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When Ruth gets angry after seeing her possible and lashes out, saying that they all come from trash or people who do not matter.

"If you want to look for possible, if you want to do it properly, then you look in the gutter” (Ishiguro 166).

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In Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, Ruth's traumatic thoughts about being a clone and therefore not being a true part of society lead to Ruth's lashing out. (Edited)

since Ruth lives Ruth's life thinking that Ruth does not matter, since Ruth simply serves one purpose in the world, this trauma of the feeling of not belonging causes Ruth to lash out.

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As humans, we never know what someone goes through and therefore cannot empathize with that person until we step into their shoes. Literature teaches us to "never judge a book by its cover," because we never know why people do the things they do until we hear their story. In the books Frankenstein, Tess of the d'Urberville, and Never Let Me Go, many may see how characters such as the monster, Tess, and the Halisham kids act, but these characters are all very similar because all of the characters act out or create destruction through words or actions due to the traumatic experiences the characters experience