However, it is not just the men of the lower class that suffer from the prominent stigma of being an “other”, the women are also affected by this label. Justine, the housemaid, from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is the epitome of “other”. When Frankenstein is recounting Justine’s arrival, he remarks that “Justine ... learned the duties of a servant, a condition which, in our fortunate country, does not include the idea of ignorance and a sacrifice of the dignity of a human being”(Shelley 41). Victor is implying that the upper classes of Geneva were much more civil to the “others” in the lower classes by not treating them like a bunch of animals. But when the Creature framed her for the murder of William, Victor’s younger brother, the authorities
