# The Captain — A Tangled Tale character guide

> The Captain in A Tangled Tale by Lewis Carroll.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0005-knot-ii-eligible-apartments

## Snapshot

A tall, grave, serenely self-satisfied ship's master who knows his longitude and latitude to an inch and pities any landsman who does not.

## Who they are

The Captain paces his deck in never-ending parade, towering over idle passengers and explaining, with lofty condescension, the curious customs of the islands he visits. He takes quiet pride in his ship, his precision, and his unshakable sense of his own importance. His deadpan reports of fishermen carrying money by the sack and ports with unpronounceable names give the voyage its comic texture, grounding the story's absurd geography in one man's absolute confidence.

## In the story

### [Knot IV: The Dead Reckoning](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_tangled_tale_se/chapters/knot-iv-the-dead-reckoning)

The ship's captain, proud and formal, who takes responsibility for the accident but is baffled by the fishermen's weighing results.

### [Knot VIII: De Omnibus Rebus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_tangled_tale_se/chapters/knot-viii-de-omnibus-rebus)

The Commander-in-Chief, covered in gold lace, struggling to transfer pigs between sties under Her Radiancy's orders.

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