Analyze Walton’s character and functions in the novel, noting analogies to Coleridge’s Wedding Guest and Dr. Frankenstein himself.

Analyze Walton’s character and functions in the novel, noting analogies to Coleridge’s Wedding Guest and Dr. Frankenstein himself. Examine Walton’s past history, his reasons for journeying to the North Pole, and the emotional and psychological states of mind he depicts in his four letters to his sister. What does Walton learn from this extended and most memorable encounter? Has he been “saved” in time by the obsessed scientist, or is he destined to suffer a comparable fate?