CR#2- FRANKENSTEIN

What I found very intriguing in reading Frankenstein is the fact that Justine, who was convicted of murdering William, was convicted of this crime. There was only circumstantial evidence found on her. This gets brought up when Victor is talking about his conversation with his brother where he says “…the morning on which the murder of poor William had been discovered, Justine had been taken ill,….during this interval, one of the servants, happening to examine the apparel she had worn on the night of the murder, had discovered in her pocket the picture of my mother”. What is more interesting is that her name Justine sounds very familiar to the word justice, which she was not given. On the other hand we can look at Victor’s encounter of being a suspect of Henry’s murder, which shortly after he was free of charge. We can also take a look at his name which sounds just like the word victory. Even though he was just as innocent as Justine, he was lucky enough to win over the justice system, where she was not. This aspect takes me back to the separation of men and women in this novel. Women were more passive characters, without much right to anything, whereas men were the law layers. When Shelly created these scenes, I feel like she was trying to make the reader understand how far apart in law, women were from men. This is shown by Justine not being able to defend herself even under so little evidence, but Victor being acquitted being under similar circumstances. So maybe Shelly was bringing up the issue of unfair justice system and how men and women were not treated equally.She brings up a lot of political issues that humans were facing in those times.