Justine Moritz Character Analysis

Justice for Justine In every story, every character has a purpose, either miniscule or massive. In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley incorporates both main characters and supplemental characters into her text. In her novel, Shelley includes supplementary characters as an example to show how poorly the lower class was treated during the nineteenth-century. Shelley included the character Justine in the novel, a supplemental character, because her story reveals how society at the time viewed the lower class, as Justine was a servant to the Frankenstein family at the time of William Frankenstein’s murder. To many, even today, the lower classes, in some people’ eyes, are seen as bothersome. In Shelley’s novel, Justine Moritz, the Frankenstein family servant, was accused of slaughtering their youngest member, William Frankenstein. Although servants in Switzerland were not regarded as poorly as servants in other countries, in addition to Justine being a friend to the Frankenstein family, that alone is not
Although many felt as though she was a kind and nurturing woman, the picture found in her pocket created detrimental evidence in her case due to the fact that the picture belonged to William and was in his possession at the time of his assassination. Even though Shelley does not directly state how Justine received the picture or when, it is plausible to say that the monster that Victor Frankenstein created could have slid the picture into her pocket at any given moment when she was not paying close attention to her surroundings. Nevertheless, this fact is unprovable. Also, because Justine is of a lower class, it is plausible that the case would not be investigated any further, as she looks rather guilty. In addition to the picture being entrapped in Justine’s custody, she idiotically claims that she committed the