This sense of obligation and responsibility distinguishes this creature as more human than his irresponsible creator. .
The scene in which servant-girl Justine is brought to trial for the murder and gets executed very different with the one where the monster puts himself at risk to save a drowning girl. In this incident Victor's selfishness is shown. He leaves the court room rather than telling the court about his suspicion that it is in fact his own creature who is guilty of murdering Victor's brother William. The death of Justine, and the later death of Elizabeth, are of Victor's failure to take responsibility of his creation. It seems that the creature is more aware of what his right duty is, and is more willing to take unselfish action to save a human life than Frankenstein is. .
Another instance where the creature acts more reasonably than Victor occurs when they meet and talk to each other on Mont Blanc. The creature is the one who is calm and tries to reason with Victor, while Victor is in a rage and acts more like a wild animal than a human, yelling and trying to attack the creature. Frankenstein cannot control his anger, and he yells at the creature, ''abhorred monster! fiend that thou art! the tortures of hell are too mild a vengeance for thy crimes. Wretched devil! you reproach me with your creation; come on, then, that I may extinguish the spark which I so negligently bestowed'' (81). In this scene Victor is clearly not aware of what the creature, whom he himself rejected, must feel towards him, the creator, who is responsible for his creature's miserable life. Not only does the creature want to make friends with people, but he also wants Frankenstein to create a female for him, ''with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being" (125). Like a human being, he wants to love and be loved, both in the sense that he wants to have friends, and in the sense that he wants to have someone with whom he can spend the rest of his life.