Point Evidence Context
Justine - “Several strange facts”, “I did confess; but I confessed a lie…that I -Context of Regency Era
• Unsubstantial evidence might obtain isolation.”
(false confession) - “God knows…how entirely I am innocent…I hope the character I
• Misplaced trust in justice have always borne will incline my judges to a favourable
system interpretation.”
• Voice of women and class - “Elizabeth’s heart-rending eloquence failed to move the judges”
ignored
Victor -“I would willingly afford you every aid in your pursuit; but the -French Revolution and how predetermined justice
• Ignored by magistrate creature…would put all my exertions to defiance.” got to far
• Weakness of personal justice - I will exert myself, if it is in my power to seize the monster, be
• Blocks true justice by failing assured he will suffer a punishment proportionate to his crimes.”
Justine -“I was the monster that he said I was…if I continued to obdurate.”
Creature - “It was as the ass and the lap-dog; yet surely the gentle ass whose -‘La Funtane’
• Superficial justice intentions were affectionate, although his manners were rude, -William Godwin
• Weakness of superficial deserved better treatment than blows and execration.”
justice -“The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to
speak in their own defence…praise the eternal justice of man!”
Felix - “Felix’s… horror and indignation were uncontrollable…he made…a -Institutionalised sectarianism within justice
• Vigilante justice solemn vow to deliver him…” -Enlightenment thinkers on sustainable self-justice
• Biased justice (sectarianism) - “The injustice of his sentence…was judged that his religion and
• Two faced justice (double wealth rather than the crime…had been the cause of condemnation.
standards) -“Felix darted forward, and with supernatural force tore me from his
father.”
Higher Justice -“Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my -Role of religion and superstition
• Role of fate (power and utter and terrible destruction.”
consequences) -“Frankenstein! Generous and self-devoted being! What does it avail
• Paradoxical trail of justice that I now ask thee to pardon me?... His voice seemed suffocated...”
between VF/Creature
Justice is not failing “Revenge kept me alive: I dared not die and leave my adversity in -Age of enlightenment as a time of uprising
• Blinded through societal being.” (emotional blind)
prejudice - Class/Gender blind (see Justine)
• Actual actions of justice are -*Compare between two trials*
uniform
• Society is failing justice not
vice versa
Justine - “Several strange facts”, “I did confess; but I confessed a lie…that I -Context of Regency Era
• Unsubstantial evidence might obtain isolation.”
(false confession) - “God knows…how entirely I am innocent…I hope the character I
• Misplaced trust in justice have always borne will incline my judges to a favourable
system interpretation.”
• Voice of women and class - “Elizabeth’s heart-rending eloquence failed to move the judges”
ignored
Victor -“I would willingly afford you every aid in your pursuit; but the -French Revolution and how predetermined justice
• Ignored by magistrate creature…would put all my exertions to defiance.” got to far
• Weakness of personal justice - I will exert myself, if it is in my power to seize the monster, be
• Blocks true justice by failing assured he will suffer a punishment proportionate to his crimes.”
Justine -“I was the monster that he said I was…if I continued to obdurate.”
Creature - “It was as the ass and the lap-dog; yet surely the gentle ass whose -‘La Funtane’
• Superficial justice intentions were affectionate, although his manners were rude, -William Godwin
• Weakness of superficial deserved better treatment than blows and execration.”
justice -“The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to
speak in their own defence…praise the eternal justice of man!”
Felix - “Felix’s… horror and indignation were uncontrollable…he made…a -Institutionalised sectarianism within justice
• Vigilante justice solemn vow to deliver him…” -Enlightenment thinkers on sustainable self-justice
• Biased justice (sectarianism) - “The injustice of his sentence…was judged that his religion and
• Two faced justice (double wealth rather than the crime…had been the cause of condemnation.
standards) -“Felix darted forward, and with supernatural force tore me from his
father.”
Higher Justice -“Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my -Role of religion and superstition
• Role of fate (power and utter and terrible destruction.”
consequences) -“Frankenstein! Generous and self-devoted being! What does it avail
• Paradoxical trail of justice that I now ask thee to pardon me?... His voice seemed suffocated...”
between VF/Creature
Justice is not failing “Revenge kept me alive: I dared not die and leave my adversity in -Age of enlightenment as a time of uprising
• Blinded through societal being.” (emotional blind)
prejudice - Class/Gender blind (see Justine)
• Actual actions of justice are -*Compare between two trials*
uniform
• Society is failing justice not
vice versa
