 Now in the novel Frankenstein the character of Captain Walton is really important in framing the embedded narrative Do bear in mind that it's his letters that essentially start the series of stories and essentially it's then him meeting Victor Frankenstein Who then unravels his own story who then also talks about the creature? This is how we learn about the entire narrative So firstly Captain Walton is the person who's responsible for essentially Unvailing Victor Frankenstein's own story and of course the creature's story within that Thus he frames the entire embedded narrative However, another thing to bear in mind is that Captain Walton is just as ambitious as Victor Frankenstein He's driven by the same Promethean desire that Victor Frankenstein has okay So essentially Captain Walton in many ways embodies and represents the typical Ambition that we as human beings tend to have however Victor Frankenstein is speaking to him directly and warning him against this ambition This overreaching which can actually prove to be really destructive at the beginning of the story We find that Captain Walton is basically stuck on ice. He has this team. He is on a ship He's basically trying to engage in this expedition to unexplored regions because we get the sense that it's almost for his own Personal victory in his own personal accomplishments However, once he meets Victor Frankenstein He ends up changing his mind and going back and realizing that maybe Knowledge doesn't always lead to happiness and ambition doesn't always lead to good and positive outcomes So as you can see behind me, of course given that he's a key character There are key quotations to remember for his character bear in mind that I have created a model answer pack that you can download okay as part of this course and This model pack also has more quotations that you remember for Captain Walton's character But most importantly how you can write really top model answers relating to both his character But also lots of the other characters in this story and also key themes However, what I want to do in this video is to go over the main major quotations remember when it comes to Captain Walton's character and of course the word level analysis you can do when you're analyzing each quotation So let's start with the first quotation. I shall say take my ardent curiosity So here we're finding that Captain Walton. He's impelled his driven forward Even when he's finding these insurmountable barriers as the captain of the ship and they're stuck on ice He has just this curiosity to Discover and explore all of these different regions almost to the point of maybe even dying for This purpose of Discovery, okay, and here of course what this is illustrating is that he has almost that Promethean ambition Which can be very self-destructive now the word level analysis you want to do here first He is a siblings of s shower and satiate the adjective ardent to describe his curiosity. It's almost Self-destructive it's constant It's an unrelenting and he can't rest until he Explores and discovers all of these regions and of course the final word level analysis can do here is the abstract noun Curiosity to talk about this first thirst for knowledge and for you know exploring different elements of the earth Which Victor Frankenstein then warns him against the second quotation to bear in mind with Captain Walton's character is when he's writing Again to his sister and he states Demargrat do I not deserve to accomplish some great purpose and now here what you want to focus on is that this is a rhetorical question essentially what we can see here is Actually Captain Walton isn't driven so much by this need to discover new regions in order to help and benefit everybody else It's almost a very self-serving ambition. It's something that's quite selfish for him He wants to accomplish some great purpose just for the sake of everybody remembering him Okay, so we can see that his ambition is driven by a more selfish streak within him And he almost feels like he deserves to be somewhat Remembered to make his mark on earth more because he just wants everybody to remember him Not so much for the knowledge that he might be benefiting other human beings with okay now the third quotations Bear in mind with his character is when he states how God gladly I would sacrifice my fortune my existence my every hope to the Furtherance of my enterprise and of course here. He's talking about his enterprise is his dream his ambition of exploring and discovering new regions Now here again We can see that he is so ambitious that he literally will sacrifice everything including his own existence his own life in Order to explore and find new regions and this means that he's not only putting himself in danger But he's also putting that his entire crew in danger and also he kind of we get the sense that he Faces the prospect of mutiny from his crew now the word level analysis you want to do here is Firstly the repetition of the personal pronoun why it's repeated four times in this quotation Of course showing how he's kind of driven by a very selfish desire for ambition and a selfish desire to basically make his stamp on Human knowledge on history perhaps not so much because he cares about how this knowledge might benefit other people The other word level analysis you want to do here is the rule of three He states his fortune existence and hope and again here what this is illustrating is that his Promethean desire his desire to really overreach overreach his limitations It's all consuming but also of course we get the sense here that this all consuming desire can be very Destructive in fact it might come at the cost of his own life The other quotation to remember with Captain Walton's character is when he states I am going to unexplored regions ellipsis And of course this is a declarative sentence bear in mind that sent declarative sentences a sentence that states a fact Feeling all mood so here he's basically saying I'm going to unexplored regions I'm going to conquer all of these places and do bear in mind that contextually Britain itself was a country that saw itself as almost going to all of these places across Africa Asia Middle East and so on and Conquering as a colonizer would these unexplored regions so almost he has a similar kind of colonial conquest He wants to be remembered as this great Explorer, but perhaps we as readers may be questioned Whether he is doing this just for his own selfish ambition just so that people can rightly can remember him through history Or whether he's doing this to further knowledge of all of these different unexplored regions either way We find that this constant seeking and this constant overreaching by Captain Walton can be very Destructive now the other question is remember is when he states Thus strangely are our souls constructed and by such ligaments are we bound to prosperity or ruin? Now here the word level analysis you want to do when he's reflecting on the human Need for ambition this human kind of tendency we sometimes have to just overreach to constantly want to achieve more Maybe because of our own selfish desire He emphasizes this firstly through the sibilance of s so strangely end souls and such okay here He's basically reflecting on how actually this human need to Effectively want to constantly discover constantly almost play the role of God is somewhat destructive But it's maybe inbuilt within all of us The other word level analysis you want to do here is when he talks about how this need can either lead us to prosperity to good things Or to ruin now bear in mind that this is an oxymoron because prosperity and ruin are complete opposite So he's basically saying that this desire and this ambition that we have as human beings can sometimes be good It maybe can lead to us discovering new things for example when you think about science But also this ambition can be really destructive and I've mentioned Promethean figure several times What I mean when I talk about Prometheus and do remember that the subheading of Frankenstein is the modern Prometheus is that Mary Shelley is referring to the mythical Titan Prometheus who essentially Stole fire from the gods and gave it to humans to man Okay, so the gods wanted to keep it just for themselves But Prometheus stole it gave it to man and fire obviously representing knowledge and Zeus the god became really angry when he discovered that Prometheus did this so he Punished him eternally by chaining him to a rock and an eagle every single day would come Tear out his liver eat it and so it was very painful for Prometheus And then overnight his liver would grow back and then the next day the eagle come tear out the liver Forever, okay, and of course, this is the gods way of punishing So this Promethean desire this Promethean ambition is also embodied in the character of Captain Wharton And of course Victor Frankenstein himself who is the modern Prometheus Victor Frankenstein does therefore share his tale with Captain Wharton He then realizes so Captain Wharton then realizes how destructive ambition can be and of course He changes his mind and decides to go back to England, okay? So that's it when it comes to revising the character of Captain Wharton and do make sure you download the model answers Which are prepared how you and how you can answer key questions related to Captain Wharton's character And indeed other characters and other key themes within this story. Thanks so much for listening