 Justice is a really important theme that runs throughout Frankenstein. Indeed when it comes to the notion of justice there are different ideas related to justice that are explored within this narrative and this story and different characters who are affected by acts of injustice. On the one hand you have of course the creature itself who is affected by the injustice of his creator Victor Frankenstein running away from him okay. So remember Victor Frankenstein is both the creature's mother and father it's like a mom or a dad running away from their child never raising them and this is a very unjust act okay. So the creature feels really hard done by really mistreated of course also the creature suffers injustice in the hands of human beings so humans they judge him based on his appearance and they mistreat him they attack him they run away from him based on his appearance okay. So he really experiences strong injustice also at the hands of humans and as a result he believes that he should at least have a female companion created by his creator so Victor Frankenstein. At least to give him some companionship however Victor Frankenstein even denies him this okay. So firstly on the one hand the creature does not experience any justice or any kindness from anyone and that's what causes the creature to become very resentful very hateful and ultimately murderous. However we also see justice is only served to people of the upper classes and this is shown through the experience of Justine so the creature does kill William this is Victor Frankenstein's younger brother however he does it in a way that leads Justine the servant of the Frankenstein household to be judged as guilty of killing William even if she is completely innocent and this is because she is working class so the judges and the jury decide that she is guilty based on her being working class and so she suffers injustice and she is executed for this death incorrectly okay so she's unfairly executed and even if at one point she does confess to being guilty it's because she wanted to get absolution for all her past sins in God's eyes she mistakenly thought okay if I confess I'm guilty for this maybe God will forgive me for all of my past sins okay but then obviously she regrets doing this however in spite of that and in spite of even the Frankenstein family trying to convince the judges hey look like you know she's innocent because she's working class the judges and the jury believe that she must be guilty due to her working class status so we can also see that people who were part of the working classes especially in Victorian England really did not ever have justice served to them especially in the courts the other element of justice is shown through obviously the experience that Elizabeth witnesses so this is the cousin of Victor Frankenstein who ends up marrying him so of course she witnesses the difference in treatment between classes but also of course she ends up being killed by the creature okay so the creature also ends up you know doing a very unjust act by killing her in order to punish Victor Frankenstein and finally of course Victor Frankenstein himself does a very unjust act towards the creature by running away from the creature and never giving it a chance to really flourish okay and even at the end Victor Frankenstein still harbors this hatred for the creature based on its appearance okay not based on reflecting whether his actions could have caused this creature to become so harmful and hateful okay so there's loads of different elements to do with justice that are explored within Frankenstein which you have to be familiar with especially if you're writing about Frankenstein other for your course of her exams so as you can see behind me I have selected all the main quotations you can bear in mind when it comes to the theme of justice and the word level analysis you can do okay so let's begin with the first quotation related to the theme of justice now the quotation is what Elizabeth says when she realizes how Justine is treated so badly based on her class okay so she ends up losing her life and being mistakenly accused of killing William purely because she's working class okay and once Justine is killed Elizabeth in her letter to Victor Frankenstein states misery has come home and men appear to be as monsters so she's so horrified at how unjust people are towards the working class especially towards Justine and she just sees men and people and human beings as in general especially the upper class human beings as monsters as being so cruel to somebody based on their class they don't even give her the dignity of having a fair trial just because she's working class this is Justine okay now the word level analysis you want to do here which obviously shows how unjust especially the legal system was towards working class people is firstly the personification of come home okay so Elizabeth is really really sad she's mourning this idea that you know Justine has been killed just because she's working class because if she maybe she was middle or upper class perhaps the judges would have been fairer to her they would have maybe not seen her as guilty also you want to focus on the literation of M and men and monsters and of course the metaphor monsters again this idea of men being monsters this notion that men you know and judges and so on the legal system was really monstrous in this treatment of the working classes okay it was very unjust and justice was not served to Justine okay now the next quotation relating to the theme of justice is the this is how Victor Frankenstein feels okay so here he's witnessing Justine being accused he feels so terrible because he knows who the royal killer is he knows in his heart that the killer of William his brother was the creature and he just cannot bear seeing Justine going through all of this and all of this torture and ultimately losing her life when he knows he's the one that created this creature however of course what this is also illustrating is that Victor Frankenstein was a bit of a coward because if he really wanted to see justice served he would have stepped up spoken out about it and said hey guys okay actually I'll be really honest guys I've created this creature I think it's the monster it's this creature that killed William he keeps quiet his mute okay so of course also we can see here that there's a little bit of selfishness from Victor Frankenstein's perspective and this is what causes injustice towards Justine okay he states the tortures of the accused did not equal mine she was sustained by innocence but the fans of remorse taught at my bosom so here of course we can see that Justine is about to lose her life based on an action by Victor Frankenstein okay so she's about to lose her life based on what Victor Frankenstein did and of course we can reflect on the unfairness of this okay now the word love analysis you want to focus on here and what Victor Frankenstein says is alliteration of tea in the tortures of the accused okay so the tortures there okay also the other word love analysis you want to focus on is the sibilance in she and sustained the case of Victor Frankenstein is saying oh you know Justine even if she was going to die at least she knew that she was innocent but i'm not innocent okay and again here we can see that Justine obviously faces a lot of injustice just because she's working class but on the other side we become critical of Victor Frankenstein he's been a coward here he should have spoken out about this and been taking a really clear stand and also confessed to what he had done okay but he didn't so then obviously that led to the death of Justine and also you want to focus on this idea of the fangs of remorse so he feels really guilty at the creature that he's created and fangs is a metaphor and finally you want to focus on the hyperbole this idea that Victor Frankenstein was really torn up by his feelings of intense guilt at having created this creature okay and this is showing through the hyperbole tour okay so again here Victor Frankenstein feels really terrible that Justine is dying she'll rather she's going to be killed she's going to be executed which she was for a crime she never committed okay so again here we can see this deep injustice towards Justine purely because of her working class status okay and we know who is guilty but Victor Frankenstein doesn't speak out the third quotation I want to focus on and this is to do with justice and how unjust society is towards the creature just purely because of how it looks is the creature states to Victor Frankenstein so Victor Frankenstein obviously is furious at it Victor Frankenstein is saying oh you're a murderous creature you're a murderous creature you've you know you've caused all of this havoc but the creature returns back to him and says no you accuse me of murder and yet you would destroy ellipsis your own creature okay so the creature states you accuse me of murder and yet you would ellipsis destroy your own creature so what the creature is saying here is no actually your one that's been unfair it's me that has had an injustice against me okay and we agree okay so when we're reading this story as we develop as we go deeper and deeper into Frankenstein we start to really empathize with the creature and we realize actually the creatures had a very deep sense of injustice against him okay it's his mom and dad Victor Frankenstein not only did he run away from his creation but then the he then turned around after the creature became really angry ended up going on this killing spree and then accuse the creature of not being more you know not having good morals but Victor Frankenstein sets the scene for that okay by running away and again here what we can see is that the creature is correct in accusing Victor Frankenstein of being unjust towards him and that's what caused the creature to become so hateful and murderous the word of analysis you want to do here which illustrates the lack of justice towards the creature based purely on its physical appearance is the litteration of M in me and murder and also the violent verb destroy this idea that Victor Frankenstein the creature says if you even had a chance you would kill me that's not fair okay the next quotation related to the theme of justice is when the creature stated here again we can see that human beings are very cruel towards him it states i desired love and fellowship okay so i desired love and fellowship and i will still spend was there no injustice in this okay so the creature is saying look all i simply wanted was just to have a father a mother that cared for me and i only wanted to have companionship from other human beings okay i just wanted love and fellowship from other human beings however everybody hated me just based on my appearance and again here we can see that there's a deep sense of injustice that the creature feels towards human beings who just basically reject him based on his appearance okay so of course here we can see that it's really unfair how human beings treat the creature now the word of analysis which shows that injustice towards the creature based on how humans treat him is firstly the words love and fellowship which belongs to the mantic field of kindness also we have sibilance instill and sponge showing that human beings rejected the creature based on his appearance and finally he asks a rhetorical question okay was there no injustice in this and again this rhetorical question makes us realize that actually it's human beings that have turned this creature into a terrible person it's human beings unjust actions towards the creature that has turned him into an evil creature the next quotation relating to the theme of justice is obviously the creature realizes human beings will never accept him so he decides i will revenge my injuries he decides to seek vengeance now here again this is his way of seeking out his own form of justice by getting vengeance on humans and of course vengeance on his own creator victor frankenstein this is shown through firstly the pronouns i and my okay we're sure you're seeing here that the creature wants to right a wrong against him and also he says this declarative sentence okay remember declarative sentence is a sentence that states a fact feeling or mood okay so here we can see the feeling that the creature is articulating is making clear that because there's been no justice towards me purely based on my appearance i will now find revenge and i will seek revenge the other quotation relating to the theme of justice is when justine okay so this is during her trial she states and she does say that she confessed to killing william and of course then she regretted doing so she states i did confess but i confess to lie i confess that i might obtain absolution so hear what she's basically saying is yes yes yes i confess to you know killing william because i thought maybe if i did confess you know god would forgive me of all my previous crimes okay because i'm sure i've committed sins in the past i have committed sins in the past so me confess into this one particular sin even if i didn't do it would be my way of showing god that i want to be cleared of all my previous sins of course then she regrets this but she does this too late and obviously the court is biased against her and she ends up being executed anyway now here of course we can see that justine is actually really innocent she wants to be pure she wants to be good she wants to do good even in god's sight okay which emphasizes the lack of justice that she faces okay so she's actually a really virtuous person the person who was not virtuous was victor frankenstein but because he was upper class he was protected from this okay he didn't face the same consequences that she faced now the word of analysis which shows the lack of justice that justine experiences firstly the repetition of the the pronoun i okay and of course also the repetition of the word confessed okay so she is really really regretful of confessing to something that she never actually did and then obviously she's treated really harshly by the courts and finally the abstract noun absolution okay this is relating to this idea that god can basically forgive you if you basically confess to your crimes and you'll pass sins okay the final quotation which illustrates the lack of justice that justine faced but also the guilt that victor frankenstein feels as a result of her death is when he reflects justine died she rested i was alive okay now here the word of analysis you want to focus on is the words died and alive which are oxymoron so it's opposite words and here we can see that firstly victor frankenstein feels really guilty at the fact that justine needlessly lost her life when as a result of the way her class led people to assume that she was guilty of committing this crime when really it was the creature but also we can see here that victor frankenstein feels really guilty in his role in creating the creature okay so he realizes that what he's done is wrong but again as i've mentioned before he genuinely would have saved justine's life had he been more courageous to speak out when he decided not to because he was looking out for his own interests okay so of course also it's because the people like victor frankenstein looking out for their own interests that injustice was perpetuated injustice continued okay so that's really it when it comes to the main quotations relating to the theme of justice in frankenstein thanks so much for listening