# The Prophet — Character guide

> Key figures in The Prophet by Khalil Gibran.

- [Almitra](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_prophet_se/characters/almitra.md): Almitra moves through Orphalese as its seeress, the one who recognized Almustafa twelve years before and drew him out of silence into speech. When the people press him for wisdom before he sails, it is her asking that tu
- [Almustafa](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_prophet_se/characters/the_prophet_almustafa.md): Almustafa has lived twelve years as a stranger among the people of Orphalese, loved and needed but never quite at home, and his ship's arrival splits him between joy and a wound he cannot hide. He calls departure a skin 
- [Beauty](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_prophet_se/characters/beauty.md): A personified concept discussed as a guiding force in life and art.

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