# Kipling — Disenchantment character guide

> Kipling in Disenchantment by C. E. Montague.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** the wittier Kipling, Bret Harte

**First appearance:** 0044-iv

## Who they are

Rudyard Kipling, the writer, referenced as a contemporary figure.

## Relationships

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

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Kipling is a contemporary literary figure who interacts with the narrator as a peer or acquaintance.

## In the story

### [VIII: The Duty of Lying](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/chapters/viii-the-duty-of-lying)

Quoted for his poem about the trained soldier, used as a metaphor for the advantage of habitually untruthful journalists over honest ones in wartime propaganda.

### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/chapters/vii)

Quoted in reference to the 'man that is 'andled and made' who teaches others their trade in propaganda.

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

Mentioned as a young writer exuding Border ballads and a taste for blood and tobacco, also nurtured by Lang.

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