Jura opposing its dark side
The Jura massif runs to the northwest of
Geneva and serves as a natural barrier
to an armed adventure from neighboring France. This is clearly a reference to
the French invasion of Switzerland in
the spring of 1798, when, it
must be said, the Jura wholly failed in this protective office. Still, why
such a
strong political sentiment should be intruded by Victor Frankenstein at
this point is not readily explicable. Perhaps what the reader is intended
to recognize is that Victor's distancing himself within a political
context allows him to forget the last time all these features of the
landscape were brought together by him in a single perspective, the night
he first encountered his Creature outside Geneva (1.6.7).
