Brand | Teaching Key Figures

Character Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major characters in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Characters

Agnes - This character must donate the clothes of a deceased son to a gypsy woman.

Brand - This character has one requirement in life: one must be willing to give everything in order to be saved.

Brand's Mother - This character does not receive last rites upon death.

A Clerk - This character is afraid of losing a job after leaving to go into the mountains.

The Dean - This character tells the main character that concern must lie within two places: the people and the state.

The Doctor - This character...
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