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superfly
superfly
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High School - 11th Grade

Explain why Justine confesses to the crime, even though she is innocent.

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Posted by superfly on Wednesday February 25, 2009 at 1:52 PM and tagged with frankenstein.

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  1. kmieciakp Teacher
    High School - 12th Grade

    See chapter 8:

    Justine says

    "I did confess; but I confessed a lie. I confessed, that I might obtain absolution; but now that falsehood lies heavier at my heart than all my other sins. The God of heaven forgive me! Ever since I was condemned, my confessor has besieged me; he threatened and menaced, until I almost began to think that I was the monster that he said I was. He threatened excommunication and hell fire in my last moments, if I continued obdurate. Dear lady, I had none to support me; all looked on me as a wretch doomed to ignominy and perdition. What could I do? In an evil hour I subscribed to a lie; and now only am I truly miserable."

    She paused, weeping, and then continued--"I thought with horror, my sweet lady, that you should believe your Justine, whom your blessed aunt had so highly honoured, and whom you loved, was a creature capable of a crime which none but the devil himself could have perpetrated. Dear William! dearest blessed child! I soon shall see you again in heaven, where we shall all be happy; and that consoles me, going as I am to suffer ignominy and death."

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    Posted by kmieciakp on Wednesday February 25, 2009 at 2:39 PM