Although Victor is thinking solely in personal terms, Johnson's 1755 Dictionary emphasizes
in a valuable way the social, and particularly the political, dimensions of this noun.
Given the fact that the novel will soon move directly to include such a framework
of human institutions, it is important to recognize that the Creature's perspective
on such diction might be quite different from, perhaps even more knowing than, Victor's.
1. The commonwealth; the body politick.
2. Common possession; the state contrary to property or appropriation.
3. Frequency, commonness.