# Maeterlinck — What’s Wrong with the World character guide

> Maeterlinck in What’s Wrong with the World by G. K. Chesterton.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Morris, Maurice Maeterlinck

**First appearance:** 0001-what-s-wrong-with-the-world

## Who they are

The Belgian playwright and poet, referenced in discussions of modern thought.

## In the story

### [II: Wanted, an Unpractical Man](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/what_s_wrong_with_the_world_se/chapters/ii-wanted-an-unpractical-man)

Cited as an example of efficiency in filling a man with spiritual tremors, contrasted with jam.

### [The Broken Rainbow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/what_s_wrong_with_the_world_se/chapters/viii-the-broken-rainbow)

Mentioned as an aesthetic medievalist who contrasted the bright clothing of Chaucer's time with the dullness of Queen Victoria's era.

### [I: The Empire of the Insect](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/what_s_wrong_with_the_world_se/chapters/i-the-empire-of-the-insect)

Cited as a modern writer who admires the collective spirituality of bees and the 'Soul of the Hive'.

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