in justice, or even in possibility
Questions of justice have entered this novel from various directions,
spanning the Creature's plea for a mate (2.9.1) to the condemnation of Justine
Moritz (1.7.1). What may be most
interesting about Walton's invocation of the term is his implicit
understanding of the notion of disinterested equity, a notion wholly
absent from the closed circle of antagonism in which Victor and his
Creature exist. For Mary Shelley
to introduce such a concept this late in the novel might suggest an effort
on her part to establish an ethical code by which readers can take the
measure of the novel's characters and events.
