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    Most people believe that villains are people who only do bad things, or are “a deliberate scoundrel or criminal” (Merriam-Webster). What gives people this definition? Simple things such as Jafar from Disney’s “Aladdin”, Ursula from “Little Mermaid”, and Voldemort from Harry Potter. Yet, no one stopped to think of the other definitions. Villains are not just criminals who do bad things. They are “[People] who [are] blamed for a particular problem” or “particular evil” (Merriam-Webster). In Beowulf

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    Villains in Literature: The Making of Monsters The most frightening feeling is when someone realizes that there are no real monsters, only regular people who are capable of horrendous acts. In the best case scenarios, these villainous creatures are allowed to roam freely from the minds of authors onto the pages of a novel. There are many readers who have always been captivated by these ‘evil’ characters and won’t ever pass up an opportunity to meet a new one. Some wonder what makes them behave the

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    Julius Caesar: A Villain

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    A villain is described as “a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness…” (“Villain.” Dictionary.com, Dictionary.com, www.dictionary.com/browse/villain?s=t.). In the play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare, Caesar is killed by Brutus, his best friend, and other conspirators due to them being envious of Caesar, and because “he was ambitious” (JC, 3.2. 28). After Caesar’s death, Antony avenges Caesar’s death when he said his funeral oration speech and got

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    Who Is Zeena A Villain

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    Upon reading Ethan Frome, it was difficult to immediately identify a character that caused the majority of the conflict throughout the novel. After considering all of the story’s main problems, Zeena appeared to be the villain who caused most of them. She should be considered the most villainous character due to the fact that she directly inhibits her husband’s happiness on various accounts, contributes to and indirectly encourages his destructive and rash decisions, and has the stereotypical villainous

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    Chillin Like A Villain

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    Chillin’ Like a Villain A villain is defined as an antagonist of a hero. Many times the villain’s plans threaten the safety of society. The villains embody dangerous evil that the hero must conquer to save the day. Villains are what make movies interesting. They provide the power, the determination and immorality audiences love to hate. In most zombie films, zombies are considered the villains. One characteristic of a villain is that he/she is powerful. A great villain is powerful. Whether their

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    The Villains of King Lear

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    The Villains of King Lear “A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.” -Agnes Repplier What makes a villain a villain? Some people might say that it is maniacal laughter and a

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    There are some differences between monster and villain. Monsters are fictional creature that has no human sense and against the main characters. Monsters look large and bad-looking in physically. They tend to destroy something important or do awful actions against the protagonist. Every time when I think about monsters, I imagine large, hairy, bad-looking, unusual animals. However in some cases, monsters turned out to be real heroes. Even though they look like they are bad, but actually their actions

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    Essay about Movie Villains

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    Movie Villains What really is a villain?      Villains have been alive forever, there is no way to easily detected them or stopping them. They come in all shapes and sizes from animals to little children to even space aliens. Each villain has his or her own particular style, usually greed. Another big reason for there evil acts is because of revenge, revenge can turn innocent people in to cold blooded killers. The term used to represent villains is antagonist, or someone

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    But, who looks up to the villain? A traditional female villain may be seen as the antagonist to the male hero counterpart. They are important to the plot of the story, as they are the ones who manipulate other characters with their evil and wicked ways. Some serious women whom can act very scary, very serious and very evil have been cast as, female villains. The female villain in Cinderella, Lady Tremaine, shows the exact characteristics of the traditional female villain. Comparing the traditional

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    Alsford, Mike. Heroes And Villains. Waco: Baylor UP, 2006. Print. “ The very heart of the notion of the villain is a refusal to submit to the social contract” (106). The book distinguishes the difference between heroes and villains and what separates them from each other. Heroes and villains are both gifted with powers that they have received either from a spider bite or they are born with it or the possibility that they are from another planet, in other words “Aliens”. Heroes believe that they

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