7. elizabeth says this to victor to explain her anguish. how is this ironic? what might victor be thinking as she relates this feeling to him? chapter 8. pg. 104 - 105: "before, i looked upon the accounts of vice and injustice, that i read in books or heard from others, as tales of ancient days, or imaginary evils; at least they were remote, and more familiar to reason than to the imagination: but now misery has come home, and men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other's blood. yet i am certainly unjust."