How does Edward's downfall in Edward Scissorhands enlighten the audience?Arthur Miller says that the role of tragedy, including the common man's...

The inclusion of Miller is an interesting subtext to the
question.  There are few writers better than Miller in articulating the condition of the
individual terrorized by the community.  Similar passionate displays of individual
identity is present in Burton's work.  Edward's downfall comes from the fact that the
social order does not understand him.  He does not bring this upon himself, but rather
finds himself fundamentally misunderstood by the social order, which seeks to either
appropriate him in accordance to their own subjectivity or outright eliminate him.  In
this setting, there is little understanding of difference and those who break the social
mode.  When Edward is hunted down by this community, the audience understands what it is
like to be different and how painful it is to be the victim of the "tyranny of the
majority."  It is in this condition that the audience is enlightened to either assume
the condition of Kim, who defends that which is despised, or at the very least, to not
be a member of the community that is manipulated or controlled by others in pursuit of
an individualistic agenda.