Justine

This image shows a blackout poetry piece with a header reading "Justine", created on page 58 of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”.  The background is predominantly drawn over in a blue swirly, crosshatched pattern. Select words and phrases have been left uncovered, creating a new poetic message against the patterned background.

By Dustin Shear

Madame Moritz,
a widow with four children, Justine was the third
the favorite of her father,
a strange perversity, her mother could not endure her, and
treated her very ill. My aunt observed this
Justine – twelve years of age, prevailed on her mother to live at our house.

Justine,
received in our family learned the duties of a servant; a condition
which does not include the idea of ig-
norance

if in an ill-
humor, one glance from Justine could dissipate it, for
she
looked so frank-hearted and happy. My aunt conceived a great at-
tachment for her,

but you could see by her eyes
her disposition was gay
yet she paid the greatest attention to
every gesture of my aunt. She thought her the model