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    Don John is a Credible Villain Don John is a believable villain because he is a bastard which means that in Elizabethan times Don John would have been seen as evil. Don John’s legitimate brother on the other hand is wealthy and well respected by everyone. Don John hates Claudio because Claudio has taken his position as Don Pedro’s right hand man. Don John even acknowledges his own evil and he also shows no mercy. Don John’s character doesn’t alter throughout the play, meaning he is only there to

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    Some of my favorite characters in literature are the villains. Each villain I’ve come across are unique in their own ways but are all crucial to the story and the plot. There wouldn’t be, “the boy who lived,” without Lord Voldemort or A Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde wouldn’t be the classic book it is now without Dr. Jekyll’s villainous alter ego. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is about the internal struggle between good and evil that man goes through. Hyde is known for his

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    Lex Luthor, The Joker, and Darth Vader are just some of the names that come to mind when one hears the word “villain.” The names Chaz Perrone, Red Hammernut and Tool, however, do not. Like fiction’s most popular villains, the villains of Carl Hiaasen’s Skinny Dip do not succeed at their final goals and are thwarted by the novel’s better characters. Unlike these supervillains, Chaz cannot even succeed at his initial goal: murdering his wife. Red Hammernut has some success in his business fraud, but

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    There are so many different kinds of villains. There is not just one kind of villain and they are not all bad villains in the beginning like Anakin Skywalker on his journey to become one of the most well known villains, Darth Vader. A villain can be anyone who might have made some wrong decisions in their life and end up going down the wrong path. Some Individuals are born being a villain with their family not making the right decisions and they become villains because it is the only thing they know

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    Villains are evil, they hurt people. Some Villains also kill. They hurt people in so many different ways; physically, mentally, etc. There are so many types of villains as well. All these different villains hurt people for different reasons. Sometimes the villains hurt many people, some hurt only one person, and others hurt multiple people to cause harm to just one person. Well even though villains are evil, some people still look up to them. There are many villains that people admire. One of

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    There are many people and characters who are villains. Villains usually have cruel and selfish actions. The most commonly known villains are from disney movies. For example, Mother Gothel from Tangled is a villain. Two other villains are Maleficent and Scar from the Lion King. Mother Gothel is a woman who deeply cares about her physical appearance, causing her to have selfish actions. What causes Mother Gothel’s wickedness is her desire to stay young and beautiful forever. Mother Gothel is bad because

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    Whether one is a villain in a novel, movie, or in real life, it is said there is a root to all evil. Whether it’s power, jealousy, or loneliness, one can be or become evil from the sole reason of a matter that is uncontrollable or a resentment towards other beings. In the play King Lear written by William Shakespeare, Edmund, the illegitimate son of Gloucester had taken a turn for the worst as his insecurity of being a “bastard” began to interfere with the relationship between his father and his

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    Between “The Landlady” and the author of the “Tell-Tale Heart,” The Landlady is the Most Evil Villain. There are a few reasons why the landlady is the Most Evil Villain. To begin with, the landlady keeps the people she kills, and treats them as her pets. It says, “ My dear boy, he never left.” This shows, that not only does admit to them still being there, it also shows instead disposing of the body, she keeps them and does whatever she wants with them. Another example, The Landlady stuffs them and

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    Evil Villains in Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 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

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    A Villain Nonetheless A great hero is often classified as such due to their outstanding ability to defeat opposition against all odds. The opposition may be a physical barrier, such as a barren desert they must cross; an emotional struggle, such as a mental illness or suffocating grief; or an antagonist who seeks to foil the hero’s plans at every stage. An antagonist, or villain, can add much depth and intrigue to a story, particularly through the reasoning behind their actions. Many villains are

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