Max Havelaar (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Eduard Douwes Dekker
- First Published: 1860
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: 1857
- Setting: Java
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire, Political fiction
- Subjects: Justice, Colonialism, Colonies or colonization, Nineteenth century, Oppression, Islands, Netherlands or Dutch people, Indochina
- Locales: Java
Characters Discussed
Max Havelaar, a Dutch colonial administrator. An idealist who is deeply concerned with justice for all, he arrives in Java to find conditions among the Javanese laborers worse than he had anticipated. Finding that the Dutch, who rule through the Javanese nobility, have acquiesced in the plundering and mistreatment of the laborers by their native masters, he attempts by persuasion and example to improve the situation while he gathers information for a report to his superiors. When his report is complete, he presents it to one indifferent official after...
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