The Scarlet Letter, By Nathaniel Hawthorne

In Ken Kesey’s novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, the nurse Miss Ratched is a fine example of a realistic fictional villain. Possession of three key components is essential in identifying what makes Miss Ratched a villian. Motive is what drives the villain to commit the very acts that allow them to be considered evil in the first place, and often drive their entire being as a character. While they must possess motive, they must also have a sense of morals that coincides with their motives (typically evil, or distorted) and follow their moral compass in a way that often causes trouble for those around them. Additionally, a villain is frequently associated with their opposite; the hero who combats them. Kesey’s character perfectly aligns with these three categories of what makes a villain, and it is unquestionable that she is the villain of the novel.

This essay is to explain why of all the characters of the short stories we read that Miss. Strangeworth is the worst character and why. These characters come from the short stories And of Clay We are Created, To Build a Fire, The Possibility of Evil, The Interlopers, Two Friends and How Much Land Does a Man Need? The characters in these stories are unique in the ways that they could be evil, such as having the ability to change something for the better but instead not doing anything at all. Miss strangeworth is the worst of all because she is two-faced, selfish, and very judgemental.

Villains are characters that propel a story, they are constantly shaping the view of the reader. These antagonists contrast the protagonists resulting in power struggles that help to develop the theme of the story. The villain helps to create a complex tale as seen in Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen; as the novel unfolds the one who plays the villain becomes more complicated. Mr. Darcy is seen as the villain for a portion of the novel, but as the story builds, the reader sees that role of villain is not as crystal clear, as Mr. Wickham past comes to light.

To start the book, we find that a young woman has committed adultery and when standing in front of a mocking crowd, she is ashamed of her actions. Continuing through the book we find that the adulteress, Hester Prynne, displays many examples of positive outcomes arising from negative situations. She becomes more and more aware of the faults of society and becomes wiser as she deals with the consequences of her actions. Even though Hester made a terrible decision that came with many extremely negative effects, she gained personality traits, perceptions, and people that rose from her mistake.

Surveillance can be considered the act of being watched under a close eye and can have either a positive or negative effect on a person. Some individuals feel more at ease knowing that someone is always there watching which is to create a supposedly safe environment. Others feel pressure from society or their peers to live up to their respected positions and morals of the society, much like Dimmesdale, which causes extreme paranoia. In The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dimmesdale is an example that demonstrates negative effects that surveillance can have on a person. In the romance, Dimmesdale is faced with both his own surveillance and Chillingworth’s surveillance. However, Dimmesdale’s own scrutiny causes more damage to himself than Chillingworth’s does.

Villains can be described as the person responsible for the specified harm or damage. Throughout the Poisonwood Bible Nathan Price makes decisions that resulted in consequences for his family. Nathan is not inherently trying to cause pain. There are factors that played a role in Nathan Price’s villany. Those factors included his inability to show any feeling toward anybody else's interests and his vow to never be a coward.

How is a villain defined? Certainly not as a man like Andrew Jackson who displayed great honor, courage, and determination for the well-being of his citizens and country. Raised in a commoner’s household, he began establishing a leadership foundation at an early age of fourteen. Jackson acquired the nickname “Old Hickory” through his portrayal of an influential and heroic leader. His valiant actions to defend his nation and represent the “common man” earned him the seventh seat as the president of the United States. Although he is notorious for forcefully removing the Indians from their homeland, Jackson’s achievements as a vigilant war general and outstanding president depict him as a hero.

What makes an antagonist and antagonist? In the story, “The Cask of Amontillado,” Fortunato plays the role of the antagonist, the man contending Montresor. In the short story, “The Lottery,” the lottery itself opposes the protagonist, Tessie. These two forces that dispute against the protagonists have different and similar qualities, and the stronger of the two antagonists is The Lottery.

The eighteenth-century author, Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. He was most famous for his writings The Scarlet Letter, “Young Goodman Brown,” “The Minister’s Black Veil” and an abundant array of other books and short stories. The stories that are mentioned contain a copious amount of symbolism throughout the entirety of each book. All the stories that he ever wrote have an underlying meaning and the symbolism was hidden within in the names, characters, places, and actions that happened in the books and helped the readers to have a greater understanding about the Puritan lifestyle and the Bible. The dictionary definition of symbolism is the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities. A few

¨A villain is one blamed for a particular evil or difficulty,¨ according to Merriam Webster Dictionary. In Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Brutus can be clearly identified as the one to blame for Caesar's tragic death and for majorly affecting the plot of the story in doing so. Brutus was not villainous for his intentions towards the people of Rome but instead became villainous when he chose to end Caesar's life without a reputable conflict to go off of. This goes to show that many of the evils in the world are not cloaked devils, but sometimes the friends right under the nose that are deemed honorable and brave.

In every story there is always a villain. A villain is an evil character in a story. The first villain chosen is the Evil Queen/Witch from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The second villain is Gothel from the movie Tangled. The third villain is Ursula from The Little Mermaid.

In a normal novel, there is a protagonist that the Western reader wants to identify with himself. Everyone wants to think of themselves as have some redeeming value in their lives, and for the most part, people usually think the good in them outweighs the bad. So how come in many Western novels the bad guy is thoroughly and totally corrupt and evil. The antagonist in Western literature today has become someone who the reader can look at and hate. Raskolnikov is definitely the protagonist, for clearly the action of the novel centers around him. But can he be called the "good guy"? He does terrible things on impulse, but his urge for doing good and kind acts is just as impulsive. He saves a family from certain destitution, and helps many people before he is sent to Siberia at the end of the novel. The reader wants to identify with Raskolnikov, but can't because of the murders. The reader also can't side against Raskolnikov and identify with Porifry Petrovitch, the

Although in the novel, Monsieur de Villefort is seen as the worst villain, others may say Danglars, and Fernand, are the worst villains. In The Count of Monte Cristo, Edmond Dantes is living life unbelievably at age nineteen, “he’ll marry the girl, become captain of the Pharaon and have the laugh on all of us...unless I take a hand in things” (16). Danglers is going to get in the way of Dantes and try to ruin his life. Danglars and Fernand “were jealous of him, one because of love and the other because ambition,”(104) Fernand wishes to love Mercedes, who is in love with Edmond Dantes, and Danglars is jealous with ambition.

In Jane Austen’s, Northanger Abbey, John Thorpe and General Tilney are portrayed as unpleasant villains. Villains are defined as, “a wicked or evil person; a scoundrel” (The American Heritage Dictionary http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=VILLAIN). Austen description of both men as power-hungry, easily upset, and manipulative follows this definition. She introduces both characters in separate parts of the book, however simultaneously she delivers a stunning example of their identical villainous personalities. Through the portrayal of John Thorpe and General Tilney as villains, Austen comments on the male supremacy that permeates through her time.

The antagonist in this story named King Haggard. King Haggard is Prince Lir’s adopted father. He is nothing but a cruel king. King Haggard is full of greediness, and he is self-centered. However despite all that, he is actually a one lonely