Frankenstein, 2 class

There are a couple of things in this novel so far that I really was curious about, and I'm sure I might have missed something in the book that may have explained these things that came to my mind.  Victor created the monster, and then as a result got very sick and had to be nursed back to health by his friend Clerval until the spring.  It seemed that once he got better though, he kind of forgot about this monster, which struck me as odd.  If he had been sick for months by having a nervous breakdown and had been hallucinating about this monster, I would have thought that once he got better he would have taken action in finding the monster.  Before he received a letter from his father, Victor even said, "My own spirits were high, and I bounded along with feelings of unbridled joy and hilarity."  I guess I wondered how he forgot completely about his creation, and did not try to find him or alert people of his presence.  

I also really could not comprehend why Victor didn't step up in Justine's defense and tell everyone he knew who killed his brother.  Victor said he would have stepped forward and confessed to the murder, but he was not in town and people would just think he was insane.  But I was thinking it through and it does not make sense to me.  Victor was gone for 6 years, so if he was in school for a year or two, and after creating the monster then had to get nursed back from health and also went on a trip with Clerval before going home, then I think he would have spent at least two years creating the beast.  So if Victor was working day and night on this monster for two years, I would think he would have so much evidence of his work.  He would have those spare body parts laying around and he'd have his lab or working space where there would have to be all his work.  I would guess there would be countless formulas and drawings and all of his workings documented somewhere.  Why could he not bring his work that would have been documented and showed the court this?  I like reading this book a lot, but it was really hard for me to get over this last point of mine as I was reading about Justine getting put to death.  I just saw the movie "Jerry Maguire" the other day and was having the same thoughts.  At the end of the movie, Cuba Gooding Jr gets injured in the end zone in an evening game.  Somehow Tom Cruise gets from the media area onto the field in like 17 seconds, which would have realistically taken like 45 minutes if possible at all .  He then goes from an evening football game (that typically go from 8:00-11:30), and has to fly from Phoenix to his home, gets his bags in the airport, and drive home.  He gets home and there is some sort of divorced woman support group meeting there that his wife is a part of.  There is no way he could get home before 3 or 4 AM, yet they are meeting as if it is 8 at night.  Most sports movies are kind of absurd in some way, but this ten minute period of Jerry Maguire was hard to get over.  I really like the movie, but there was blatantly just no conceivable way.  This is how I thought about some of the things in Frankenstein I said above, and especially how Victor does not help Justine.  I really like the book so far, but I do not understand why Victor thinks no one would believe him when he would have so much evidence of the creation of the monster.  I guess it could be kind of like The Scarlet Letter, in that he has this secret that he does not dispose to others and is just eating him alive inside, but it seems to me he wants to tell people but can't for some reason.