Sauron From The Canterbury Tales

One of them is that he ordered his army to slaughter every Catholic in Drogheda, Ireland. He heard that the Catholics were torturing the Protestants and decided to kill all the Catholics. No one was actually certain about what was going on in Ireland but Oliver Cromwell believed the Protestants. Another reason why he was viewed to be a villain was because after fighting with Parliament against the King, he closed the Parliament down himself which made him as bad as the king.

Tolkien creates the ring as the epitome of evilness to give it a mind of its own. With this symbolism, the ring is able to maneuver itself and corrupt whom it pleases. It takes on the evilness of the beholder and enhances their evil thoughts to the point in which evilness is the only thought that consumes them. As described by another hobbit, Frodo, the ring has “an unwholesome power that sets to work on its keeper at once.” In Sméagol’s instance, the ring is able to take a strong hold of his soul with just a look at “the bright and beautiful” gold that it entails. Such evilness is personified by Tolkien because Tolkien sees it as something that takes action, not something that is acted upon. The power that the ring possesses eats away at him until he is an entire different creature. The ring destroys Sméagol and creates Gollum, an outcast and a murderer. The theme of temptation displayed by Tolkien coincides with the temptation that evilness

Texts are shaped by their compositional context and thus offer new insights about the composer’s era. However, as there are ongoing concerns of humanity, key ideologies resonate over time and are affirmed between texts as shown in William Shakespeare’s play ‘King Richard III’ (1591) and Al Pacino’s docudrama ‘Looking For Richard’ (1996). King Richard III examines the irrational behaviours and moral ramifications of a power lust Richard to explore ideas of the relentless pursuit of power, betrayal and deceit, reflective of the theocentric context of the Elizabethan society. Centuries later, Looking For Richard explores Pacino’s journey to reshape a Shakespearean text that is representative of the changing contextual norms and values of a contemporary American audience who are confused and sceptical about the relevance of Shakespeare’s plays. Both texts provide an image of Richard’s deceit reflective of their distinctive contexts. However, despite the disparity of time, both texts display how key ideas such as deceit, endure and resonate over time.

This extract from Book 6 of Homer’s The Iliad comes at a point where the Trojans are heavily losing to the Achaeans. Hélenus, son of Priam has instructed Hector to return to the city to gather the elders to tell them to offer prayers to the gods so that goddess Athena may pity Troy. It is interesting that Homer should choose Hector to deliver this message rather than an unimportant character; Homer uses it as a devise to develop Hector and make him a more (if not the most) sympathetic character. He shows his contrasting sides; his family oriented side as opposed to the cruel warrior. The interaction with his child, Astyanax, brings a moment of tenderness and humanises Hector.Hector’s contrasting aspects to his character can be explored through

In conclusion villains are known for being evil in a story or movie. The first villain chosen is the evil queen from Snow White. The evil queen/witch sets out to kill Snow because she wants to become the fearest of them all. The second villain is Gothel from the movie Tangled. Gothel kidnaps Rapunzel as a baby and locks her in a castle, away from the world. The third villain is Ursula from The Little Mermaid. Ursula turns the merpeople into little animals called polyps. Villains are

The story starts off with Odysseus the king of Ithaca fighting and winning the Trojan war. After 10 years at war he starts his journey to Ithaca, on the way there his crew is killed and loses all his ships he survives our of his intelligence and cunning skills. Back at Ithaca everyone believes that he is Odysseus is dead so all the nobles from nearby islands try to get the wife of Odysseus to rule the kingdom. Telemachus Odysseus son finds out that Odysseus is not dead from Athena. So Athena tells Telemachus to go to the kingdoms that fought with his father in the Trojan war and find clues to were he is. Telemachus finds out that hes father is not dead and is stuck on a island and Telemachus gets a crew together and goes out to save his father and kingdom.

True Evil Evil is all around, at every moment, it’s just a matter of how it chooses to come out and what side of the story one may stand on. Views on evil may range from seeing it as a plague, or used as an instrument, it puts fear into people’s minds to keep them in order. Others may believe there is no good without evil so they go hand in hand. It seems there are so many views on evil it may just be a perspective, as Thomas Hobbes theory states man level good and evil to things they desire, own, hate, or disagree with. Theories like Sigmund Freud also explain desire leads to the opportunity of evil, if taken over it may cause a person to act in a beastly way to get what they want for example power.

The Harry Potter books have one main villain: Lord Voldemort. He has many followers who are either afraid of his power or follow his beliefs. The typical villain is one to abuse their abilities and use them to gain power. Voldemort and his followers believe that “there is no good and evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it” (Rowling 211). Voldemort seeks out this power and uses his great abilities in magic to induce fear.

The main purpose of the composition of epic poems was to not only entertain the reading audience, but also to teach lessons and display the differences between proper and inappropriate morals and behaviors. Both The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer display characters that are able to function as lessons to the reader. Homer displays the character Hector as one of the literary heroes in The Illiad and Odysseus as one in The Odyssey. Hector is a better example of a literary hero than Odysseus because of his respect and outward affection for his family, his esteem for the gods, and his ability to handle and employ his responsibility of power.

He was the reason the mortals got the good parts of the animal, and gave them their fire back. When looking for a trickster from a different culture, Satan tops the list because he was a devious trickster, when he tempted Eve with the apple. In my modern day example I chose Jerry Mouse because he was a quick-witted trickster who almost always escaped his capturer Tom

What is a villain? A villain is a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime. In Beowulf, by Gareth Hinds, the story is divided into three books. In all three books, a man named Beowulf takes on the role to protect his people. In the first book, Grendel hunts the people of the village at night, and Beowulf confidently fights him without any armor.

Have you ever heard of a show called "Once Upon a Time?" It has mashed multiple storybook stories altogether as one and has multiple heroes and villains. One of my favorite villains is Mr. Rumplestiltskin, who is a horrific villain. He is just plain evil. He is an enemy of the heroes as well as other villains. Rumplestiltskin is my favorite villain because he is known for making evil deals, he is stuck with an evil soul, and he fell in love while being evil. If I had a choice to be any villain I wanted, I would most definitely choose him.

I every super hero movie there is always a protagonist and antagonist, or also considered hero and villain. There's many super hero but people never seem to give villain a thought. There are many villains but my personal favorite is the Joker from Batman: Dark Knight Rises. The Joker has a dark and creepy background which makes him more interesting and what makes him a villain. He's tricky and sets up traps for people such at Batman. The Joker has a criminal record of robbing banks, killing innocent civilians, and stealing cars and armored trucks.

Both of the evil characters, Sauron being the one in "The Lord of the Rings", are hungry for power. They both need to gain back what they lost in order to restore the power they crave. There is a kind of mystery kept around the main antagonists in both "Harry Potter" and "The Lord of the Rings". We can see that the main similarities in the two novels lie within the main characters.

Following the standards of classic tragic heroes, Satan is a determined leader with an extreme amount of hubris. He knows that God is the most powerful being and yet he still