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The Misanthrope
by
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (Molière)
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Alceste
Célimène
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The Misanthrope Characters
Meet the Cast
Alceste
Alceste is our title character, our protagonist, our main man, our head honcho, our…well, you get the idea. But if he is the title character, what is a misanthrope?It's Not You, It's EveryoneWell...
Célimène
Bella Swan, Eat Your Heart Out. But Now That You're a Vampire, Don't Take That Too Literally.Bella may have guys fawning all over her in Twilight, but she could never rule them with an iron first l...
Philinte
A Bromance for All TimeHonestly, Alceste does not deserve a friend like Philinte. We aren't even sure how he got a friend, since he hates people and everything. Philinte is the Wilson to his House,...
Éliante
If this were a teen movie, Éliante would be the brunette with the glasses and the deeper voice, while Célimène would be all blond, blue eyed, and high-pitched. Anyway, you could say Éliante is...
Arsinoé
The Prude Arsinoé gives a bad name to all those upstanding ladies out there. Philinte calls her a prude, but there is not really anything prudish about her if all the gossip is true. She's just fr...
Célimène's Suitors
Okay, so there are a bunch of these guys and we don't know a ton about them besides that they all love Célimène and they aren't the sorts of people that we want to be friends with. There isn't a...