's first
murder is that of . In the creature's own words from Chapter 16, he was sleeping in the woods
when William, a "beautiful" child came upon him and he was seized with the intention
that he should "educate him as my companion and friend". Unfortunately William
screamed when he saw the creature's "form" and unwittingly revealed his father was .
The creature then decided to kill William and "grasped his throat to silence him, and in a
moment he lay dead at my feet". The decision to make William his first victim is very
deliberate and calculated.
When dead, the creature noticed a locket around
William's throat which he took. Planting the locket on Justine as she herself slept, the
creature framed Justine for William's murder. As a result she was duly executed.
The creature learns from the death of William that he can "create desolation; my
enemy is not invulnerable; this death will carry despair to him, and a thousand other miseries
shall torment and destroy him", therefore inspiring the creature to further
crimes.
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