Justine is orphaned pointedly about the same time (the previous November) that Victor
Frankenstein gives life to his Creature, who is, like Justine, an unwanted dependant.
Unlike every other character in the novel, however, the Creature is cut adrift from
family protection not by death, but by a lack of human responsibility for his nurture.
Born in abnormal circumstances, he is without family, wholly unaccommodated in an
alien world. Where Alphonse Frankenstein virtually adopts Justine, his son rejects
the Creature he has fashioned.