Frankenstein - Justice

"During the whole of this wretched mockery of justice I suffered living torture." p 78.

I'll be tackling the theme of justice in this blog post. Justice is best portrayed in the story pertaining to Justine's trial (hey, Justice, Justine, yageddit???). Specifically, Justine's trial shows the lack of justice that sometimes exists in the world. She is sentenced to death on what is essentially circumstantial evidence which follows the same train of logic as "President Lincoln was shot, you own a gun, therefore, you shot President Lincoln." When you say it bluntly like that, well it just sounds preposterous that a court of law would sentence a person to death over that. However, these sorts of mistakes do happen, and there simply is no justice in that.

Furthermore, Frankenstein himself, though he condemns the mockery of justice that is Justine's trial, is not exactly any crusader for justice himself. He immediately decides that The Creature is responsible for the murder with no better evidence than seeing from a distance what probably could have looked like a really big guy maybe somewhere near the crime scene. Possibly. It just seems silly that he pretends to recognize justice when he in fact is just as oblivious to real justice as the people who condemned Justine.

Also, I'd just like to say that Frankenstein is a drama queen crybaby. I can hardly believe that he's acting like he got the bad end of the deal because Justine gets the happy knowledge that she's actually innocent whereas Victor has to suffer so much because he knows he's guilty (allegedly). Come on, Vick, innocent or not, I imagine it sucks a lot more to be put to death by 18th century standards than to toil in the anguish of guilt.