Frankenstein Theme Of Justice And Injustice

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Throughout this novel, the readers analyzed the injustice that the creature went through. Justice and injustice can always be in someone's life, depending on the case. In this case, I believe the creature understands what he has to go through, even though it's not his fault. All the actions the monster is taking, is something that should be accepted because of how he doesn't have control of anything. Although the monster is not quite understanding as normal humans in reality, he shouldn't be penalized by his actions. Throughout the selection, we realized how he wanted to be friends and wanting to be able to do what normal people do. Instead of harming and murdering other fellows, but something he did to “apologize” was to take more into

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