Rationalization

When Victor first comes back to his hometown of Geneva after the mysterious death of his brother William, Victor comes into the knowledge that the murder was most likely perpetrated by the monster of his own creation. Nearly simultaneously, a servant and family-friend/surrogate of the Frankenstein's is accused and arrested for the selfsame crime. While Victor stays quiet and sits on the vital knowledge he has, the friend, Justine, is falsely convicted and executed for the crime. While this is all happening Victor is telling himself that nothing he could say or do would convince the judges of her innocence beyond what he believed would be justly revealed. This is not the case. Victor's attempts at rationalization simply displays his continuing inability to take any sort of responsibility for his crime against nature or his towering hubris. Furthermore, his delusion only serves as a way that he can deny that he was ever wrong in the first place to attempt such a feat or that the realm of empirical science is all encompassing. It is an attempt to distance himself from any liability and create a dynamic to continue his falsity and not succumb to his guilt.