Mary Shelley and Jonathan Swift were completely us” (Swift, 73). Swift doesn't think highly of maids. Swift in general portrays women, including his wife, in a rather unfair way. The Brobdingnag girls “stripped to the skin and wore their aprons in my presence, while I was placed in their toilet directly in front of their naked bodies, which, I am sure, to me was very far from being a spectacle tempting. , or from giving me any other emotion than those of horror and disgust.” (Swift 133) Gulliver's thoughts clearly address the youth of Swift's time. In contrast to Swift's writing, Shelly's Frankenstein portrays women in an esteemed manner. Women play active roles in Frankenstein, for both Victor and Felix. Women, in fact, help Victor to mature in the eyes of the reader, which is impossible to notice unless they are mentioned. Elizabeth is Victor's guiding light, before and after his maddening state of creation. When Victor reunites with Elizabeth, he describes her romantically, “it has been some time since I saw her; he had given her a beauty that surpassed the beauty of her childhood years. (Shelly 67) This is completely opposite to Gulliver. Be it his mother, Justine or Elizabeth; Victor has positive encounters with women. It may also be noted that Frankenstein's monster “requires a creature of another sex… and he will please me” (Shelly 135). This request made by the monster is crucial as it shows the necessary interactions between males and females that Shelly, not Swift, displays. Although both stories are completely different, they have an underlying theme that they both follow. All the main characters in both stories point out major human flaws. Gulliver and Frankenstein's monster are representations of human nature. Gulliver shows this through the people and societies he encounters on his travels. Swift, through Gulliver, describes the flaws of modern religion with the controversies of the Lilliputians and their beliefs of breaking “eggs at the most convenient ends” (Swift 59). The reader quickly dismisses this conflict as ridiculous due to the absurdity of the dispute, and this is a perfect example of Swift's disturbing satirical powers. Swift leaves no group unscathed in his book. Gulliver, while traveling through the Laputa Islands, speaks of the scientists and their projects this way: "The only drawback is that none of these projects has yet been brought to perfection, and, in the meantime, the whole country lies miserably desolate " (Swift 196).