Original sentence: However, the tendency in the literature is to characterize Scott either as a faultless hero struggling against impossible conditions or a bumbling oaf who lead his men to certain and forseeable death.Numerous accounts portray Scott's dedication to proper British behavior as a foolish affectation without attempting to understand its cultural significance to a man of his time and place
Edited sentence: However, the tendancy in the literature is to characterize Scott either as a faultless hero struggling against impossible conditions or a bumbling oaf who lead his men to certain and forseeable death.Numerous accounts portray Scott's dedication to proper British behavior as a foolish affectation without attempting to understand its cultural signifigance to a man of his time and place.Scott was less competent than Amundsen, but he was also unlucky.The voracity of the scientific intentions of the Scott expedition, particularly the geological ones must be doubted however, particularly due to the way in which he followed almost exactly the path taken by Shackelton during his earlier expedition