defence before they are condemned
Unknowingly yet shrewdly, throughout this speech the Creature touches Victor Frankenstein
on his most sensitive moral points. Watching Justine condemned for a crime for which
he held himself responsible, Victor was (and continues to be) racked by a sense of
injustice. Yet, in condemning the Creature, he is just as guilty of fundamental injustice
as had been the Genevan magistracy.