# Captain Oates — On the Art of Writing character guide

> Captain Oates in On the Art of Writing by Arthur Quiller-Couch.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Oates

**First appearance:** 0008-lecture-vi-on-the-capital-difficulty-of-prose

## Who they are

Antarctic explorer cited as an example of understatement.

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