Captain Robert Walton

Yeah.

So the, the sailors it's the captain's name is Robert Walton.

And his whole point is to be a foil to Victor.

And he's supposed to be like, I want to go out to the North pole and, you know, be this great adventure.

We don't want to be here.

We're pissed at you.

We're going to throw, you know, a mutiny and they keep going and going and going, which is why it's really important that right when he meets Victor and is like the turning point for robert walton but the book itself starts off with just letters from robert walton to his sister and it's i think it's like six letters or so and it's just him being like we're going on this voyage i can't wait to see what happens this is gonna be so much fun everybody's dying oh no we found some guy he's almost dead he's telling me some really weird story what's this about oh he made a person i don't believe him what's gonna happen oh my god we found this thing on the boat And it's a really good way to set up the story and frame it all.

Yes, the book starts with the tundra, the North Pole, and everything.

I'm charting the unknown regions.

Talk to me, Captain Walton.

For fear if I sleep now, I will never awake.

I began to talk about my expedition.

Heaven shower down blessings on you, and save me, that I may again and again testify my gratitude for all your love and kindness.

Your affectionate brother, R. Walton.

End of part one of Frankenstein.

Recording by Thomas Copeland.

I love you very tenderly.

Remember me with affection, should you never hear from me again.

Your affectionate brother, Robert Walton.

End of part two of Frankenstein.

Does it get the same reaction from you as it got from me the other night? Two o'clock in the morning, I got quite excited.

There's a quote initially from a character in the book called Captain Walton.

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

Okay, and then the introduction to this book says, as a cautionary tale warning of the dangers that can be cast into society by a presuming experimental science, Frankenstein is without equal.

There's a

guy, Walton.

Walton is a rich, I believe, is he an Englishman?

He almost certainly is an Englishman.

What kind of other asshole would he be?

Hulk Hogan? Yeah, that was an easy one.

Didn't even have to think too hard about that.

Walton, he's writing letters back to his sister.

Right.

It is framed by letters from Captain Walton, whose ship is completely trapped in the crushing ice of the Arctic Ocean.

The entire narrative is told surrounded by a desolate waste of freezing ice, and that Arctic weather there is not just Gothic decoration.

It's structural.