The opening of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein serves several purposes. It not only introduces the main character, but it also sets the overall tone of the story. Beyond that, the first section of the book also prepares us for the events that follow. Robert Walton does such through a series of letters he is writing to his sister in England. His letters will introduce us to Dr. Victor Frankenstein, at which point he takes over the narrator's duties through flashback perspective. The content of Walton's letters also gives the reader some insight into his own personality. We learn that he shares some of Victor's earliest scientific attitudes and can thereby draw the conclusion that the two men may, in the end,
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