Some critics see the creature as Victor's "shadow" self ... that part of each of us that we are not always consciously aware of that contains things that may be hidden from ourselves:
"It is everything in us that is unconscious, repressed, undeveloped and denied. These are dark rejected aspects of our being as well as light, so there is positive undeveloped potential in the Shadow that we don’t know about because anything that is unconscious, we don’t know about." (from Web site below)
Of course, when Victor first sees what he has done, he commits his major mistake: he fails to love what he has given "birth" to.
It's clearer for the creature: he is born loving, without the "nurture" that might affect most of us --- he is looking for love and it is not returned. So he strikes out in response; not all that unnatural or surprising.
You might want to do some further reading about Jung's "Shadow Self"; there are many sources on the Internet.
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