Flavius: The One Real Friend
loyalty
virtue
service
First appears: Act 2, Scene 2
Flavius is Timon's household steward: the man who manages the money. He has watched the fortune shrink and tried to warn his master, but Timon would not listen. When ruin comes, Flavius shares what he has with the other servants.
In Act 4, he goes to find Timon in the wilderness. Timon's absolute hatred of humanity is temporarily shaken by Flavius's arrival. He cannot quite maintain that all people are false when one is standing in front of him weeping.
He is the play's answer to Apemantus's cynicism: genuine virtue does exist, it is just rare.
Key Scenes
Famous Quotes
“We have seen better days.”
Flavius — Act 4, Scene 2
Themes
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