# Theodore — The Monk character guide

> Theodore in The Monk by M. G. Lewis.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0004-i

## Snapshot

A quick-witted young servant who slips into a convent disguised as a beggar boy, trading false answers for the truth about a missing woman.

## Who they are

Theodore serves Lorenzo with a loyalty that extends to espionage, posing as a destitute youth to charm the nuns of St. Clare into revealing what happened to Agnes. His beauty and easy manners win him the prioress's favor even as his careful lies keep him alive inside hostile walls. Brave, resourceful, and willing to be underestimated, he becomes the quiet instrument by which the novel's secrets begin to surface — and a rare figure of genuine decency in a story crowded with predators.

## In the story

### [Chapter III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_monk_se/chapters/iii)

The eldest son of Marguerite, who shows dawning virtues and is taught by his mother to avoid the crimes of his parents.

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