 Now let's discuss the character of Justine in Frankenstein. Whilst she is one of the more minor characters she is really important because she plays a pivotal role in showing one of the key turning points in the novel. She is of course their servant and she is mistakenly convicted of killing Victor Frankenstein's younger brother William and as a result she is put to her death and killed. Now the reason why she's so important in terms of showing one of the pivotal moments in the story is because firstly, this is the second major death that Victor Frankenstein realizes is a consequence of his creation of the creature but also her role and her social position illustrates to Victor Frankenstein how terribly people who were part of the working class were treated. They tended to be very disfavorably viewed. So for example, if there was any kind of crime during especially this era during the Victorian era and even earlier people used to assume that just because you're working class you probably had a negative character. So of course her class is one of the reasons why she is convicted purely because she's a working-class servant the mob and the people that discover William's dead body assume that she must be the one that has committed the crime and of course this really haunts Victor Frankenstein because firstly he realizes just how society can be very classist so really terrible towards people who are part of the working class but most importantly he realizes that he has caused the deaths of two innocent people as a result of his own ambition and his own creation of the creature. Now behind me I've essentially picked out the main quotations to bear in mind when it comes to Justine's character. Now the first quotation is when we learn that Justine had already confessed her guilt and of course this is when Victor Frankenstein he rushes back in order to try and see whether you know Justine might be released from what he believes is probably murdered by the creature. Now here, of course we can see that Justine is almost forced to confess her guilt purely because of her social status, okay? Now the main thing to bear in mind in terms of one level analysis for this quotation is firstly the alliteration of H and had and her and also the verb confessed in other words Justine was basically forced to confess something that wasn't true Okay, the second quotation to bear in mind is how she is described. She is she was dressed in mourning and her countenance dot dot dot ellipsis Exquisitely beautiful. Now Justine is a passive woman similarly to Elizabeth, right? So she is also described as this very beautiful woman very this model Victorian woman who's very passive very forgiving very full bearing However in contrast to Elizabeth society treats her slightly differently because of her class, okay? So while she's very beautiful her working class status as a servant means that she is not Exempt from terrible treatment by society now the word level analysis you want to do here is firstly How she is dressed in mourning and of course this word has connotations of death and it of course foreshadows how Victor Frankenstein himself will be mourning for the deaths of all his other family members The second word of analysis to do is of course the adjectives here Exquisitely beautiful. This describes just how beautiful Justine is much like Elizabeth. However, unlike Elizabeth She does not benefit as a result of her beauty because of her class She is working class. Therefore, she's not exempt from perhaps the negative treatment of society The third quotation to bear in mind of Justine's character is when it states God knows how entirely I am innocent I do not pretend that my protestations should equip me and this is when she is basically telling Victor Frankenstein That she is definitely innocent. She hasn't killed William. Okay. Now when she's speaking here She states she talks in declarative sentences bear in mind that a declarative sentence is a sentence that states a fact feeling or mood She's basically saying look, I am completely innocent. I've not committed this crime However, the other word level analysis you want to do here is when she's talking about my pretend my protestations Protestations means her protesting saying no, no, no, no, you know, I didn't commit this murder But she's saying she doesn't pretend that her protestations her refusal of any guilt will acquit her In other words, she doesn't believe that people in the crowd will believe her simply because she's a servant Okay, and of course here you want to focus on the litteration of P. Again, what this illustrates to Victor Frankenstein's Shock and horror is that she is basically pinned for murder. She's basically accused of murder purely because of her status in her class. Okay The other quotation relating to Justine's character again is she states I did confess but I confessed a line of course here What you want to focus on is the repetition of confessed in many ways We feel that Justine was almost forced to make this confession purely to fit in with what the crowd would have been expecting Which is a servant who is of a lower class status must of course have negative intentions The final quotation when it comes to Justine's character is when she does show how Forbearing she is and how she almost accepts death very passively a very typical modern Model of a Victorian woman. That's very passive almost prayerful in facing her death She states I do not fear to die and of course here What you want to focus on is the litteration of D and do and die again here She shows that she's really passively accepting her fate again Very typical Victorian style of a woman in the sense that she's very passing very impassive very forbearing Which is very accepting of what society has given out to her. Okay So that's it when it comes to Justine's character And of course do make sure you download the model answers that part of this course where you can access How to write about her character and of course also how to write about some of the other characters in the novel and the key themes Thanks so much for listening