a sense of justice
We are to recall that the Frankenstein family tradition has been to enter
into public service, most particularly acting in the capacity of syndics, or
magistrates (1.1.1). Thus Alphonse
Frankenstein's sense of rectitude may be advanced here as a standard
whereby to measure that of his son, also that of his society. At the same
time, as a man who is so completely bound by the system he has served that
he cannot conceive that it might act wrongly, or who is so unprepared to
recognize injustice as a potential outcome of the weighing of purely
circumstantial evidence, Alphonse Frankenstein, the representative citizen
of Geneva, may
have so narrow a perspective on truth that, even were it to appear
self-evident, it might still never be wholly just.
