# Suspiria de Profundis — Character guide

> Key figures in Suspiria de Profundis by Thomas De Quincey.

- [The Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/suspiria_de_profundis_se/characters/narrator.md): He moves through the Suspiria as both grieving child and seasoned reverist, orphaned early by sisters' deaths and shaped by solitude, a gentle sister, and a household pitched between luxury and obscurity. His central ten
- [Fanny](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/suspiria_de_profundis_se/characters/fanny.md): She belongs to the small, tender circle of the narrator's earliest attachments, the world of gentle sisters and country solitude that precedes all his sorrows. The bond is charged with the vulnerability of childhood love
- [Levana](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/suspiria_de_profundis_se/characters/levana.md): She appears to the narrator in dreams, known by her Roman symbols, a veiled power who raises infants erect and watches over human development through passion, strife, and temptation rather than spelling-books. Her distin
- [Cyclops the Charioteer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/suspiria_de_profundis_se/characters/cyclops_the_charioteer.md): He belongs to the symbolic machinery of the Suspiria's dream-world, a charioteer whose monstrous form the narrator invokes when probing whether an apparition can feel human grief. The tension he embodies is interpretive:
- [The Noble Captain](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/suspiria_de_profundis_se/characters/the_noble_captain.md): He rides through the narrator's recollections of the mail-coach era, a figure of rank and elegance set against the narrator's own carefully middling childhood, neither too high nor too low. His distinction is a kind of n
- [Mr. Wordsworth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/suspiria_de_profundis_se/characters/wordsworth.md): The poet William Wordsworth, referenced as a contemporary and influence.
- [Madonna](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/suspiria_de_profundis_se/characters/madonna.md): The Virgin Mary, appearing in devotional and dream contexts.
- [Turk](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/suspiria_de_profundis_se/characters/turk.md): A Turkish figure in the narrator's opium dreams.
- [Thomas De Quincey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/suspiria_de_profundis_se/characters/de_quincey.md): The author, occasionally referred to in third person.
- [Jane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/suspiria_de_profundis_se/characters/jane.md): A young girl from the narrator's childhood memories.
- [Mr. Symons](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/suspiria_de_profundis_se/characters/symons.md): An acquaintance of the narrator in the mail-coach episode.
- [Mr. Palmer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/suspiria_de_profundis_se/characters/mr_palmer.md): A minor character in the narrator's recollections.
- [Jesus Christ](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/suspiria_de_profundis_se/characters/christ.md): Central figure of Christian faith, invoked in religious reflections.
- [Coleridge](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/suspiria_de_profundis_se/characters/coleridge.md): Samuel Taylor Coleridge, referenced as a poet and acquaintance.
- [Grandpapa](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/suspiria_de_profundis_se/characters/grandpapa.md): The narrator's grandfather, mentioned in childhood memories.
- [Apollo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/suspiria_de_profundis_se/characters/apollo.md): Greek god of music and poetry, appearing in dream imagery.

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