Read this excerpt from frankenstein:during our walk, clerval endeavored to raise my spirits. he did not do this by common topics
of consolation. those maxims of the stoics, that death was no evil, and that the mind of man ought to be superior to despair on the eternal absence of a beloved object, ought not to be urged. even cato wept over the dead body of his brother.which words best describe the overall tone of this passage?