Great question. I think that much of Frankenstein's behavior can be seen as expressing a desire to get out of his comfort zone. Frankenstein is extremely intelligent—a scientific genius, no less—and yet he's still not satisfied with his life. It's not enough for him to be a great scientist; he wants to achieve the impossible. He wants to use—or rather, abuse—his considerable talent to create new life. He is so intoxicated by this idea that he imagines that he can create a new species that will worship him as their god. If that isn't going out of your comfort zone, I don't know what is.
Unfortunately for Victor (and just about everyone else in the story), his dream, when fulfilled, quickly develops into a nightmare. Through his frenzied experiments, Frankenstein unwittingly unleashes a force of destruction upon his world that he can no longer control.
Maybe it would've been better for everyone if he'd stayed in his comfort zone, driven by a reasonable desire to help humanity rather than a delusion of grandeur that sought to upend the natural order.
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