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    Lady Macbeth is shown as a villainous character through a number of elements, which portray her true inner, evil, through her inhumane conscience, lack of compassion for her victims, her deceptiveness and her manipulation. When she finds out the prophecies given to Macbeth to become

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    The Death Star fires a beam at a planet and completely obliterates it to tiny pieces. It is arguably one of the most villainous and most imposing things in all of movie history. According to Simon Gallagher, the author of “52 Reason Why Star Wars Might Just Be The Greatest Film Of All Time” says, “A feat of supreme engineering, and one of the most enduring images of sci-fi

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    could be known as the most villainous, but to himself. In a way, Jay Gatsby is his worst enemy: he advances after Daisy, a married woman. He is willing to give anything and everything for her, losing any sense of himself, before their encounter prewar. But he is also the poor son of migrant farmers. After the re-inventing of himself, this poor young man who once was still seeking acceptance, never truly finds Daisy. Perhaps he is a stupid and tragic figure, but not a villainous to others, whereas Tom

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    “Hector is the Hero of Act One and Irwin is the Villain” How far do you agree? In Allan Bennett’s, The History Boys, controversial teachers hector and Irwin are made out as one hero and the other a villain. The ability to be able to distinguish these complex characters as a hero, a person who is admired for their admirable nature; or a villain, who’s immoral and erroneous actions characterise them distinctly; is irrelevant as they both harbour characteristics seen as desirable and distasteful. Both

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    one’s life was governed by fate and was predetermined. Shakespeare’s Macbeth challenges the Elizabethan ideology of fate by privileging that although Macbeth was a victim of his “vaulting ambition” (1:VII 27), he was ultimately responsible for his villainous actions. Shakespeare has foregounded certain events to privilege that a person has free will and a concience and the cosequences of going against one's conscience, thus challenging the assumption of the Elizabethan Era. The audience is invited

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    The makers of the Disney movie, Hercules, altered it in a multitude of ways. The producers and creators created the Hercules story in a childish way, while also falsifying facts and leaving key components out. Disney changed major elements of the Hercules myth, creating an invalid and childish depiction of the famous myth. To appeal to its audiences, Disney had to make the movie considerably child appropriate. In doing so, they turned the complex and thrilling story into a childish movie. Not only

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    the middle of a happy event. The way Montresor dolls with Fortunato is maleficent. We are unaware of his victim’s actions, if we did know the actions of his victims we could be understanding. Targeting where Montresor develops Fortunato makes him villainous, along with how he persuades Fortunato to go into the wine cellar, and where he decides to commit the murder. The story

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    The Robber Bride

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    contemporary variations feature female camaraderie, for the heroines and villains. Significantly, modern adaptations depict cunning and violent villainesses. In Gaiman’s text, all the key female roles are villainous, with the two deceptive fox women. However, Atwood depicts both heroic and villainous women. Consequently, this tale has retained its key traits, largely evolving in form (through expansion into long poems and novels) and thus providing a larger amount of characters and a wider range of

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    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. In the first half of the

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    In “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” Bierce shows the reader what the fear of death can do to a man’s psyche while allowing the reader to decide if what the protagonist has done is justified or not. Bierce does this through the narrator’s point of view, Bierce’s writing style, and the narrator’s tone. The narrator, being third person limited, knows what Peyton Farquhar thinks and how he feels; and therefore, is able to go into great detail about Farquhar's hanging. Which causes the reader to wonder

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