Walton and Frankenstein are both men of science but in vastly different fields. What does having
two main characters in this field tell you about 1800s Europe? What does it tell you about the
gender roles of this time?

Explanation: the genders are both males. they both are working in science fields so it seems that men in the 1800's in Europe where more educated and advanced in science the women.

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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