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The division of roles between the male and the female characters in Mary Shelly's Frankenstein is apparent throughout the novel. Although the males constitute the most part of the novel, the seemingly insignificant number of women contribute to the underlying in ....

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.... out the way Victor had planned, and by the end of the novel, it is the creature who is giving the orders. The women in the story occupy many of the same traits that distinguish them from others. Shelly's women are portrayed as "gentle and affectionate" (65) and they have features of an "angelic beauty" (144). Victor describes Elizabeth as "the most fragile creature in the world" (65) showing that he feels superior to her. Since the women are mainly confined to the home, they are naive and are not as prepared for the outside world as the men are. (Mellor, 276). This is perceivable in the opening letters from Walton to his sister, Margaret Sa ....