# Disenchantment — Character guide

> Key figures in Disenchantment by C. E. Montague.

- [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/unknown_narrator.md): He belongs to that prime generation of 1914 volunteers who believed the whole nation was straining every nerve together, and his voice moves between wry cultural commentary and raw personal accounting. What gnaws at him 
- [Sir Douglas Haig](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/sir_douglas_haig.md): Haig functions less as a flesh-and-blood presence than as the looming authority against which the volunteers' boundless illusions are eventually measured. His remoteness from the trenches sharpens the narrator's sense th
- [Williams](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/williams.md): A recurring soldier character, possibly a subordinate or fellow officer of the narrator.
- [Little Flanigan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/little_flanigan.md): A soldier or junior officer, mentioned in the narrative with some familiarity.
- [Bates](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/bates.md): A character, possibly a soldier or servant, appearing in the narrator's account.
- [L⸺](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/l.md): A partially named officer or acquaintance, likely a real figure anonymized.
- [The British Regular Officer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/british_regular_officer.md): A type or representative figure of the professional British officer class.
- [Shakespeare](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/shakespeare.md): The playwright, referenced as a cultural touchstone and occasional character in discussion.
- [Tomkins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/tomkins.md): A soldier or minor figure, possibly a common name for a typical man.
- [The Presiding Officer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/presiding_officer.md): An official figure, possibly in a court-martial or inquiry scene.
- [Looker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/looker.md): A named individual, possibly a journalist or observer of the war.
- [Garibaldi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/garibaldi.md): The Italian revolutionary, used as a historical comparison or allusion.
- [Burke](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/burke.md): A named individual, possibly a politician or writer referenced in the text.
- [Kitchener](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/kitchener.md): Field Marshal Lord Kitchener, the British war minister, a key historical figure.
- [A⸺](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/a.md): A partially named person, possibly an officer or official anonymized.
- [Foch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/foch.md): The French Supreme Allied Commander, a major historical figure in the war.
- [Mr. Andrew Lang](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/mr_andrew_lang.md): A writer and critic, referenced as a contemporary literary figure.
- [Masters](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/masters.md): A named character, possibly an officer or soldier.
- [Satan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/satan.md): The devil, used as a symbolic or rhetorical figure in the narrative.
- [Court](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/court.md): A named person, possibly a soldier or official.
- [Prometheus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/prometheus.md): The Titan from Greek myth, used as an allusion for suffering or rebellion.
- [Harry](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/harry.md): Shakespeare's King Henry V, used as a symbol of heroic leadership.
- [Sam Hughes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/sam_hughes.md): The Canadian Minister of Militia, a controversial political figure.
- [The Pious Aeneas](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/pious_aeneas.md): The Trojan hero from Virgil, used as a classical allusion.
- [Lucifer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/lucifer.md): The fallen angel, used as a symbol of pride or rebellion.
- [Burne-Jones](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/burne_jones.md): The Pre-Raphaelite painter, referenced as a cultural figure.
- [Matthew Arnold](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/matthew_arnold.md): The poet and critic, used as a literary reference.
- [Hotspur](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/hotspur.md): Shakespeare's Henry Percy, a symbol of hot-headed valor.
- [Dickens](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/dickens.md): The novelist, referenced as a cultural touchstone.
- [Bacon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/bacon.md): The philosopher and statesman, used as an allusion.
- [Antony](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/antony.md): Mark Antony from Shakespeare, a figure of passion and tragedy.
- [Alexander the Great](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/alexander_the_great.md): The ancient conqueror, used as a measure of ambition.
- [Hamlet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/hamlet.md): Shakespeare's prince, a symbol of indecision and introspection.
- [Corot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/corot.md): The French landscape painter, referenced as an artist.
- [Mr. Tappertit](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/mr_tappertit.md): A character from Dickens, referenced as a literary type.
- [Kipling](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/kipling.md): Rudyard Kipling, the writer, referenced as a contemporary figure.
- [Tolstoy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/tolstoy.md): The Russian novelist, used as a literary and philosophical reference.
- [Einstein](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/einstein.md): The physicist, referenced as a modern intellectual figure.
- [Ariel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/ariel.md): The spirit from Shakespeare's The Tempest, a poetic allusion.
- [Colonel Repington](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/colonel_repington.md): A British military correspondent and diarist, a real figure.
- [Mr. Dempsey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/mr_dempsey.md): A named individual, possibly a civilian or officer.
- [Queen Victoria](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/queen_victoria.md): The former British monarch, a historical reference.
- [Hardy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/hardy.md): A named person, possibly a soldier or writer.
- [Christ](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/christ.md): Jesus Christ, used as a religious or symbolic reference.
- [The Kaiser](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/the_kaiser.md): Wilhelm II, the German Emperor, a key enemy figure.
- [Poppo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/poppo.md): A named character, possibly a soldier or nickname.
- [Lovely Phoebe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/lovely_phoebe.md): A character from Shakespeare's As You Like It, a literary allusion.
- [St. George](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/st_george.md): The patron saint of England, a symbolic figure.
- [Jack](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/jack.md): A common name, possibly a soldier or generic figure.
- [Buller](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/buller.md): A British general from the Boer War, a historical reference.
- [Old Fritz](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/old_fritz.md): A nickname for Frederick the Great, or a generic German soldier.
- [Gough](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/gough.md): A British general, a real military figure.
- [Hamilton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/hamilton.md): A British general, known for the Gallipoli campaign.
- [Ancient Pistol](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/ancient_pistol.md): A character from Shakespeare's Henry V, a braggart soldier.

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