Well-Intentioned Protagonist

Many novels have protagonists whom are unique people. These characters often try to help others and improve humanity's state of existence is some way. They can be anybody with any attitude or status in society, but something persuades them to help. These characters will often do anything they can to help in any way, large or small. Many times, the characters will invent a totally new idea to serve others and will pursue it with greater fervor than they would a conventional method. Unfortunately, in novels, like in life, good intentions can end in bad results. Such is the case in the novels Frankenstein and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. In both of these stories, the well-intentioned protagonists wanted to help others in an unconventional way but ended up failing at least partially. So how did these well-meaning people with unique goals fail? Why did their good intentions end with sour results? These characters failed for three important reasons: they were inexperienced; th...