themselves for my destruction
Thus, the Creature explicitly remarks what the experience of Justine's trial and execution
had conveyed to Elizabeth, that men are universally "monsters thirsting for . . .
blood" (II:1:8). This is exactly antipathetic to the tenets of disinterested benevolence
Godwin had championed in his public writings (see Political Justice Book IV, Chapter
8 and elsewhere in that treatise) and in the instruction of his children.