Frankenstein Justice And Injustice Essay

True justice can only be awarded to those who have been treated with injustice.When it comes to the act of justice and injustice in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, there is one major character who suffers from injustice and yearns to be justified throughout the entire novel. This character is Victor Frankenstein’s creation, the Creature. The Creature suffers injustice from everyone he ever meets and it is how he learns what justice is or should be. These experiences with injustice are what urge and drive him through the entire novel, from birth to death, and what shape him into the figure of a monster. Throughout the novel, however, the readers will begin to question if the monsters are in fact inside of man. The Creature was never instructed

Victor rebukes the Creature immediately and says, “it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived,”(Shelley 44). The Creature has the knowledge that Victor wants to hurt him, too. It is later when the Creature confronts Victor that he says, “You would tear me to pieces, and triumph; remember that, and tell me why should I pity man more than he pities me,” (Shelley 173). If it’s own creator wants nothing more than to hurt the Creature, why should the Creature not wish to hurt his creator? He was never taught any different and only learned what he observed so it goes to say that the Creature grasped an understanding of equal justice from Victor Frankenstein. The Creature also accumulates a greater understanding of justice from the family he observes and grows to love. For months he watched their lives, he learned from them, and he helped them. The Creature would bring them wood for their fires simply because he wanted to help. In his mind, he believed that it might be possible for him to one day become a part of this caring family. He loves them and cares for them, so why would they not do the same? Of course, the family reacts in a horrific way. The father, DeLacey, is blind and does

The Creature successfully wins justice over Victor by outliving him. Victor tells the reader, “I dare not die and leave my adversary in being,” (Shelley 189). It is his last wish to kill the Creature, but the creature is granted this instance of justice when he is the one to live while Victor is the one to die. Victor is truly the only one the Creature ever wanted to hurt. Now that Victor has died, the Creature feels like that desire of his is justified. The Creature says, “The completion of my demonical design became an insatiable passion. And now it is ended; there is my last victim,” (Shelley 207). The Creature’s desire to hurt has been received justice. This transitions into an area in which the Creature is partially successful in receiving justice and partially unsuccessful. This occurs when the Creature hurts others. At first he does not intend to hurt people, but he soon realizes the power that he holds in his ability to hurt people. The Creature says, “I too can create desolation; my enemy is not vulnerable; this death will carry despair to him, and a thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him,” (Shelley 131). He knows that by hurting people close to Victor, he might also hurt Victor himself. It is justified to him as he is simply hurting someone who has hurt him since the moment he