"I did confess; but I confessed a lie. I confessed, that I might obtain absolution..." (Shelley 77).
Here, Justine has confessed to a murder that she did not commit.
Because of the fact that she lied, can Justine truly call this a "confession"? If not, what characteristics disqualify this as a "confession"?
Good question!
ReplyDeleteNo she cannot truly call it a confession. A confession is a formal statement admitting that one is guilty. Since she did not commit the crime she is not guilty, therefore she cannot confess for the crimes of someone else.
ReplyDeleteYes, Justine can call this a confession. A confession is acknowledgment of guilt. Which gives Justine feelings of responsibility on the acts of her lying. Justine wanted forgiveness and to become blame free on the crime that was not done by her. She wanted everybody to look past the incident and look at the character she was born with, to see if that proves her innocence ( Shelley 65).
ReplyDeleteJustine can truly call it a confession. A confession is where one person admits to a crime they committed. Even though Justine did not commit the crime she was accused of and she confessed for, it makes one think that she could have possibly confessed to another crime out of a guilty conscience.
ReplyDeleteA confession is admitting guilt to a crime. Justine's confession is not truly a confession because she did not commit a crime.
ReplyDeleteJustine cannot truly call this a confession, one because it is a lie and two because on page 77 Justine even states that her confessor made her feel that she committed the murder and made her believe that she was the monster he said that she was. The only reason why this lie was considered a confession is because someone made Justine feel guilty of an act she did not commit.
ReplyDeleteI agree because to confess is to admit in a crime which she did not do she even said she "confessed but ...confessed a lie...that might obtain absolution"(pg.94) going back off what you said on page 77 she felt that it was an obligaton to confess because of the "other sins" (pg.94) she had did she believed it was right for her to do so but thank realize her mistake which make it not a confession but desperation to feel unguilty of all her other wrong doings.
DeleteYes, Justine can call this a true confession, being that a confession is an admittance to one's wrong doings. Although Justine's confession was not because she had committed the crime however she began to gain a guilty conscience because of her lying and began to think she was what they claimed her to be (Shelley 77) and confessed because she wanted to be free of these things.
ReplyDeleteJustine can truly call this a confession. A confession is an admittance or acknowledgement of guilt. Justine is not guilty for committing the crime of murdering William, Frankenstein’s youngest brother. However, she feels responsible for William’s murder and begins to grow a guilty conscience because of her lying. She confesses to rid her of the claims of the people (Shelley 77).
ReplyDeleteNo No, Justine cannot call this a true confession. The definition of a confession, as Google would say is "a formal statement admitting that one is guilty of a crime." but as we can see on page 77 Justine was not the real culprit. Now, in HER mind this may have been a confession but its kind of like dramatic irony, we know the truth even if she doesn't.
ReplyDeleteI think that Justine can truly call this a confession because confession is basically acknowledging or owning up to something that a person feels guilty for doing. In this case, Justine confessed that what she claim she did was kill William because someone lead her to believe that she was guilty which she really wasn't but she grows into thinking that shes really guilty because someone made her feel guilty of a crime she didn't commit.
ReplyDelete@Justice Reeves- NO, Justine can not call this a confession. Although a confession is an acknowledgement of guilt(or crime), a confession can only be made by one who has been accused or charged with an offense. Justine was not charged of the offense of murder, nor did she commit the crime. With this information it is safe to say that this is not a confession.
ReplyDeleteTo be literally correctly, she, Justine, cannot truly call that a confession. A confession is to fess up to a wrong doing that the person confessing has done. Justine says that with her mouth that she did not do it. (Shelley 77) Now when it comes to her conscience it may differ. When she was made to feel guilty for the wrong doing, then felt responsible, she may think that she confessed. A confession is the truth and that is not what she told. It was a lie. Therefore she confessed a lie and that is kind of an oxymoron.
ReplyDeleteNo this can not be a confession because a confession is when an individual acknowledge something sinful that they have done Justine did not acknowledge anything she did she lied about it. She didn't murder him so therefore which she said she did so not a confession. Confession are usually an individual telling about something they've done.
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