# Madame Blavatsky — The Inferno character guide

> Madame Blavatsky in The Inferno by August Strindberg.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0010-vii-beatrice

## Who they are

Occultist whose theosophical ideas influence the narrator's worldview.

## In the story

### [Extracts from My Journal](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_inferno_se/chapters/extracts-from-my-journal)

Mentioned as a theosophist teacher recommended by the unknown friend.

### [IX: Extracts from the Diary of a Damned Soul](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_inferno_se/chapters/ix-extracts-from-the-diary-of-a-damned-soul)

Her occult treatise is sent by a friend; the narrator dismisses her Secret Doctrine as plagiarized and worthless.

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