My father wished her not to go
Alphonse Frankenstein in the last sentence of the previous
chapter admonished the members of his household to rely on the court's
impartiality (see 1.6.12). Now that
the court has decided against Justine, he acquiesces in its pronouncement
of her guilt and sees the family suffering as brought to its term. It is
hard not to see such a compartmentalizing of human behavior as having
some effect on Victor's habitual distancing of himself from his emotional
obligations and his duties to his Creature.
