Doña Isidora

John Melmoth

Doña Isidora is seduced and psychologically tormented by John Melmoth, who offers her a cursed love and a pact with dark forces.

Father Jose

Father Jose acts as Doña Isidora's confessor and spiritual guide, but his attempts to save her soul are overwhelmed by her obsession with Melmoth.

Don Fernan di Aliaga

Don Fernan di Aliaga is Doña Isidora's father, a strict and authoritarian figure who tries to control her fate and marriage.

Don Gregorio Montilla

Don Gregorio Montilla is a family acquaintance and potential suitor for Doña Isidora, representing a conventional but unwanted match.

Sir Edmund

Sir Edmund is a nobleman and acquaintance of Doña Isidora, representing a possible escape from her family's control but ultimately irrelevant to her fate.

Immalee

Doña Isidora and Immalee are both victims of John Melmoth, their parallel suffering creating a dark mirror between them, though they never directly interact.

John Melmoth

Doña Isidora is seduced and psychologically tormented by John Melmoth, who offers her a cursed love and a pact with dark forces.

John Melmoth

Doña Isidora is seduced and psychologically tormented by John Melmoth, who offers her a cursed love and a pact with dark forces.

Father Jose

Father Jose acts as Doña Isidora's confessor and spiritual guide, but his attempts to save her soul are overwhelmed by her obsession with Melmoth.

Father Jose

Father Jose acts as Doña Isidora's confessor and spiritual guide, but his attempts to save her soul are overwhelmed by her obsession with Melmoth.

Immalee

Doña Isidora and Immalee are both victims of John Melmoth, their parallel suffering creating a dark mirror between them, though they never directly interact.

Sir Edmund

Sir Edmund is a nobleman and acquaintance of Doña Isidora, representing a possible escape from her family's control but ultimately irrelevant to her fate.

Chapter XX

Isidora prays to the Virgin, expressing her inner conflict and longing for her past. She later shrieks in alarm, hinting at a secret.

Chapter XXI

Confesses her love for Melmoth but struggles with the demand to renounce her religion, clinging to the crucifix in prayer.

Chapter XXII

Declares her eternal love for Melmoth and her refusal to marry Montilla; agrees to elope with Melmoth the following night.

XXIII

Described as having strange fantasies, including questioning damnation and the nature of worship, which her mother interprets as insanity.

Chapter XXIV

Terrified and disillusioned on her bridal night, she questions Melmoth and resists his urgings, but ultimately faints from fear and exhaustion.

XXXIV

Pregnant and desperate, she begs Melmoth for her child's baptism and expresses fear of dying in childbirth.

XXXV

Secretly married to Melmoth and pregnant, she endures the preparations for her forced nuptials to Montilla and ultimately witnesses her brother's death.

XXXVI

Imprisoned by the Inquisition, she confesses her marriage to Melmoth and clings to her infant daughter.

XXXVII

The prisoner, dying of a broken heart after her child's death and Melmoth's temptation.

XXXVIII

Isidora is invoked by the Wanderer as the last and most terrible form he must encounter before his doom.