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Victor Frankenstein Character Analysis

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Victor Frankenstein him self represent the ego the pursuer of his own wishes and ends, the experimenter who uses reason even whilst feeling guilty about it. Freud defines his concept in just these terms “The ego represents what may be called reason … in contrast to the id, which contains the passions” (Freud) even though Victor preferred isolation on people he is not happy and he blames his family for being far away from him and he blames them for the calamity that happened.

Thus we can say that victor Frankenstein has an evil side in his personality, and we can say that doppelganger is what runs victor life. Victor is the true monster of the story and he himself realize that, he realize his vanity and maybe he tries to warn his people by his isolation but it ended by the murder of them all. Then he tries to kill the monster after it ends by killing all his family, but the only way of killing the monster and destroying his is by his own death, as they are one person one cannot survive without the other. This part of victor death is shown at the end of the novel as he is dead the monster disappeared.

The reality of the monster has been the dark and savage side of victor, all his suppressed feelings was shown thorough this creature, and by this way they complete each other and cannot live without the other. As victor lived isolation alone and the denial statue he lived in made him monster, although we know that the creature that wants to behave well never let a chance
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