# Flatland — Character guide

> Key figures in Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott.

- [The Narrator (A Square)](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flatland_se/characters/the_narrator.md): He is a middle-class mathematician and householder in Flatland, proud of his rank and fluent in its geometry, who narrates his own memoir with the confidence of a man who believes he has seen everything worth seeing. Tha
- [The Sphere](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flatland_se/characters/the_sphere.md): He arrives as a Circle to the Square's eyes, growing and shrinking in ways that seem like conjuring, and reveals himself as a missionary of higher dimensions permitted to speak only once in a thousand years. His method i
- [The Stranger](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flatland_se/characters/the_stranger.md): He appears without warning, speaks from the depths of nowhere, and refuses to be touched or measured, slipping out of the Square's world even as the Square presses against him. What begins as an intellectual duel — the S
- [The Circles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flatland_se/characters/the_circles.md): They sit at the apex of Flatland's hierarchy, their many-sided bodies approaching the ideal Circle and their authority approaching the divine, ruling through a priesthood that tolerates no irregularity. Their beauty is r
- [Chromatistes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flatland_se/characters/chromatistes.md): A leader of the Chromatic Sedition, advocating for color reform in Flatland.
- [The Isosceles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flatland_se/characters/the_isosceles.md): With two equal sides and a narrow apex, they are the working class and the army, their acute angles making them dangerous both to enemies and to the social order. Flatland's regime manages them through a mix of brutal re
- [Many of the Highest Circles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flatland_se/characters/many_of_the_highest_circles.md): Elite judges from the priestly class who enforce Flatland's laws.

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