The Creature is a human form of the dark nature of Victor's personality, a separate identity from Victor; however, is Victor's true identity. The Creature is the other half of Victor Frankenstein's personality. Victor and the Creature are like Yin and Yang; complete opposites but similar to one another. A literary doppelganger best describes the two beings; it's the exact opposite. The Creature is Victor's pure freedom and madness because it has never developed traits like rules, feelings, and restriction; however, Victor mind has its limits due to the feelings and limitation his mind has developed through growth. Victor and The Creature are two people with one mind because Victor created the Creature through his own image, like God so-called created man in his own image.
Throughout the text of Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley; Victor Frankenstein is a confused individual. Victor Frankenstein should have given more thought to his creation and its needs prior to animating it with the gift of life. He should have provided some means to control, educate, and guide it. The more he pursues his dream of creating a Being; he slowly slips from being a brilliant scientist to being an insane mad man looking to play God. Displayed through Victor actions, in the beginning he is a family man, a noble man, a kind hearted man full of life. However, the closer Victor became to completing the creature, he is more enclosed, darker, misguided. Therefore, proving that it's no longer a quest to Frankenstein anymore; it's an obsession. Readers would swear Victor is insane, no one has called him that for Frankenstein to realize that, "A being whom I myself had formed, and endued with life, had met me at midnight among the precipes...I well knew that if any other had communicated such a relation to me, I should have looked upon it as the ravings of insanity. Besides, the strange nature of the ...