# Bates — Disenchantment character guide

> Bates in Disenchantment by C. E. Montague.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0006-iv

## Who they are

A character, possibly a soldier or servant, appearing in the narrator's account.

## Relationships

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_social_

Bates is an acquaintance of the narrator, appearing in social or domestic contexts.

### [Court](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/court)

_professional_

Bates and Court share a professional or service-oriented relationship, likely as servants or staff.

### [Shakespeare](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/shakespeare)

_psychological_

Bates is a character who references or is contrasted with Shakespeare, highlighting literary or thematic parallels.

### [Shakespeare](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/shakespeare)

_psychological_

Bates is a character who references or is contrasted with Shakespeare, highlighting literary or thematic parallels.

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_social_

Bates is an acquaintance of the narrator, appearing in social or domestic contexts.

## In the story

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/chapters/iv)

Implied as part of the group in the hut, though not explicitly named in this excerpt; the narrator mentions 'we' and the hut's inhabitants.

### [II: Misgiving](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/chapters/ii-misgiving)

Referenced as one of the recruits standing on the kerb during the sergeant-major's pub session.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/chapters/i)

A private who professes fear and wishes to be quit of the war, yet continues fighting; his soul endures in 1915.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/chapters/iv)

A soldier who mentions the effect of a grand tenor voice in a song, evoking a cool, transcendent feeling.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/chapters/i)

Mentioned as a Cambridge cricket follower who muses darkly over a photograph of an Oxford eleven.

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