Read these lines: "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. 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." Why did she confess?

1. 1. She separates the act from the truth at once: she confessed, but what she confessed was a lie. 2. 2. Her stated motive follows the word that: she confessed so that she might obtain absolution. 3. 3. The pressure behind that motive is then described, a confessor who besieged, threatened and menaced her. 4. 4. Together those give the first option. 5. 5. She never names another culprit, so option B invents a motive. 6. 6. The confession came after she was condemned, so it could not shorten anything, ruling out option C. _Source: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)_