# Erewhon Revisited — Character guide

> Key figures in Erewhon Revisited by Samuel Butler.

- [My Father](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/erewhon_revisited_se/characters/my_father.md): Once a curious explorer who escaped Erewhon by balloon, he now slips back incognito to see the temple raised in his honor, only to find his casual words and habits hardened into sacred dogma. He is torn between the pull 
- [George](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/erewhon_revisited_se/characters/george.md): Raised as the Mayor's son but secretly the Sunchild's, George moves through Erewhonian society with the easy authority of a man who knows more than he says. He is loyal to his mother, fond of his father, and coldly resou
- [Professor Hanky](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/erewhon_revisited_se/characters/professor_hanky.md): Hanky has built a career on the Sunchild's supposed miracles, complete with canonries, rites, and a study that happened to burn on a very useful night. He is vain, easily rattled, and ruthless when his authority is quest
- [Professor Panky](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/erewhon_revisited_se/characters/professor_panky.md): Where Hanky blusters, Panky insinuates, and together they steer the King and the credulous public toward a convenient orthodoxy. He is the one who reminds Hanky how nearly Yram wrecked them, and who treats the Sunchild's
- [Yram](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/erewhon_revisited_se/characters/yram.md): Adored by the common people and feared by the priests, Yram has spent twenty years guarding a secret about her son's parentage while outwardly playing the Mayor's loyal wife. Her old stubbornness about how the Sunchild w
- [Dr. Downie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/erewhon_revisited_se/characters/dr_downie.md): Downie belongs to the circle of Sunch'ston worthies who dine with Hanky and Panky and find themselves entangled in the affair of the returned Sunchild. When George springs his depositions on the Professors, Downie is fri
- [Mrs. Humdrum](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/erewhon_revisited_se/characters/mrs_humdrum.md): Mrs. Humdrum belongs to the respectable stratum of Sunch'ston society that Yram can summon to dinner without embarrassment, yet her second daughter married for love and bore too many children to bring money with her. Tha
- [Mr. Balmy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/erewhon_revisited_se/characters/mr_balmy.md): Mr. Balmy is the sort of friendly stranger whose helpfulness opens a narrative door, guiding the disguised Higgs across country toward the town where his old identity is now a religion. His easy goodwill is genuine, but 
- [President Gurgoyle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/erewhon_revisited_se/characters/president_gurgoyle.md): An Erewhonian academic who writes a pamphlet on vicarious existence.
- [Mr. Cathie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/erewhon_revisited_se/characters/mr_cathie.md): A young man who becomes engaged to George's sister.
- [The Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/erewhon_revisited_se/characters/the_narrator.md): The narrator stands outside the action as its editor and heir, quoting his father's manuscript while insisting on his own Broad Church sympathies and his suspicion of anyone who says one thing and hides another. His fili
- [Head Ranger](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/erewhon_revisited_se/characters/head_ranger.md): An Erewhonian official who guards the pass into Erewhon.
- [Mr. Baker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/erewhon_revisited_se/characters/mr_baker.md): An Erewhonian baker mentioned in passing.
- [Mr. Turvey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/erewhon_revisited_se/characters/mr_turvey.md): An Erewhonian character with limited presence.
- [Chowbok](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/erewhon_revisited_se/characters/chowbok.md): A former Erewhonian acquaintance of my father.
- [Bishop Kahabuka](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/erewhon_revisited_se/characters/bishop_kahabuka.md): A bishop mentioned in the narrative.
- [Mrs. Tantrums](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/erewhon_revisited_se/characters/mrs_tantrums.md): An Erewhonian woman mentioned in the council.
- [Mr. Mayor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/erewhon_revisited_se/characters/mr_mayor.md): The Mayor of Sunch'ston, Yram's husband.
- [Old Doctor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/erewhon_revisited_se/characters/old_doctor.md): An elderly Erewhonian doctor mentioned in passing.

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