# Blumine — Sartor Resartus character guide

> Blumine in Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** the Blumine

**First appearance:** 0017-v-romance

## Snapshot

The refined young woman whose beauty and grace first taught Teufelsdröckh what love might mean — and what losing it could do to a man.

## Who they are

Blumine belongs to the bright, polished world of polite society that Teufelsdröckh, awkward and inward, can only approach from outside. She draws him toward tenderness and hope, yet the very refinement that enchants him also marks the distance between her sphere and his. Her presence in the early arc gives his philosophy a pulse: before the Clothes-Volume, there was a heart that learned to want something it could not keep.

## In the story

### [V: Romance](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sartor_resartus_se/chapters/v-romance)

The object of Teufelsdröckh's love; she ultimately ends their relationship to marry a richer man.

### [Sorrows of Teufelsdröckh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sartor_resartus_se/chapters/vi-sorrows-of-teufelsdr-ckh)

Referenced as the 'Flower-goddess' whose loss triggers Teufelsdröckh's sorrow and wandering.

### [VII: The Everlasting No](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sartor_resartus_se/chapters/vii-the-everlasting-no)

Referenced as part of the romantic disappointment that deepens Teufelsdröckh's despair.

### [Testimonies of Authors](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sartor_resartus_se/chapters/testimonies-of-authors)

Referenced as the 'Flower-Goddess' heroine, considered a fictional name by the reviewer.

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