Character page for the Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days.
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Phileas Fogg
A member of the Reform Club, Phileas Fogg intends to prove that a man can travel around the world in eighty days.
- Clock King: He is known for his strict observance of routine.
- Idle Rich: Until the events of the story, all Fogg ever did was to go to the Reform Club to read newspapers and play card games.
- Mysterious Past: Fogg's backstory is never shown.
- Quintessential British Gentleman: He is a dignified and mostly stoic Brit.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Fogg solves many problems by offering to pay out of the £20,000 he carries with him.
- Wealthy Philanthropist: He donates all of his card game winnings to charity, often anonymously, and in the first chapter he slips twenty guineas (£3200 or $4000 in 2023) to a begging woman with a child without thinking twice.
Jean Passepartout
Fogg's servant, Passepartout winds up joining his employer.
- Beleaguered Assistant: Passepartout undergoes a considerable amount of distress as he follows Fogg.
- Cosmic Plaything: Passepartout ends up in one improbable situation after another.
- Jack of All Trades: Before becoming Fogg’s servant, Passepartout had been a singer, a circus rider, tightrope walker, professor of gymnastics and firefighter.
- Meaningful Name: Passepartout, which is French for "goes everywhere", making Jean's full name mean "Jean goes everywhere." Which he does.
- Undying Loyalty: Passepartout refuses to accept Fix’s claims that Fogg is a bank robber and stands by Fogg.
Fix
A detective from Scotland Yard, Fix is sent to arrest Fogg because Fogg is suspected of robbing the Bank of England.
- Inspector Javert: Fix is relentless in his pursuit of Fogg.
- Last-Name Basis: Fix's first name is never shown.
- Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist: Fix also has shades of this. Various adaptations turn him into a Butt-Monkey to offset his role as the antagonist.
Aouda
A Parsee woman whom Fogg and Passepartout rescue from being burned to death along with her husband the Rajah of Bundelcund. Afterwards, she joins them on their journey.
- Damsel in Distress: We first meet her as she is about to join her dead husband in a funeral pyre.
- Happily Married: At novel's end, she marries Fogg.
- Rescue Romance: After Fogg with Passepartout’s aid has Aouda saved from being burned alive, she grows attracted to Fogg.
Reform Club Members
These men made the wager with Fogg.
They are Andrew Stuart, an engineer; John Sullivan and Samuel Fallentin, both bankers; Thomas Flannagan, a brewer, and Gautier Ralph, a director of the Bank of England.
- Flat Character: None of them have much in the way of characterization.
Sir Francis Cromarty
A British officer stationed in India.
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- Flat Character: There isn’t much to his character beyond his position.
Captain Andrew Speedy
Captain of the SS Henrietta.
- Bad Boss: His crew doesn’t think highly of him, since it barely takes much for Fogg to convince them to mutiny.
Colonel Stamp Proctor
An American that Fogg and company encounter in San Francisco.
- Meaningful Name: His name refers to proctology, the study of rectal infections and diseases. In other words,he is an ass.
