I almost began to think that I was the monster that he said I was
Here in an essential form is the crux of the similarity being subtly drawn
between the conditions of Justine and the Creature. Not only has society
cast her off as "guilty," but it has reinforced its verdict by classifying
her as alien, beyond a human pale: thus, a "monster." Yet, since individual
identity is itself so deeply subject to social construction, to find
oneself termed alien is to undergo an immediate process of
self-alienation. We will witness the same process as the driving force in
the Creature's education as the next volume unfolds.
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