The echo here is pronounced. Only two paragraphs earlier Victor had recounted his
fear "lest the monster whom I had created should perpetrate some new wickedness."
In Elizabeth's perspective, on the other hand, there is no alien being to consider
as a scapegoat and in whom to localize and therefore objectify evil. Instead, the
potentiality for monstrousness exists in all human hearts, and in their collective
aggregate that is human society, as Justine's fate demonstrates, this monstrousness
can be institutionalized as an underlying, unrecognized and therefore dangerous formation.
In other words, the monstrous is not external but within.