2007-12-28 04:03:22 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Can we include plays? Aaron in Titus Andronicus- his only remorse was that he hadn't done 10000 more evil deeds and he says that he dug up bodies and left the bodies outside the doors of their family. That's villainy!
2007-12-28 04:27:01 · answer #1 · answered by kelby_lake 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Iago, from Shakespeare's Othello--a thoroughly evil person who has no respect for others and destroys the lives of several innocent, good people simply because of his own envious nature. Where a couple of earlier Shakespeare villains are sometimes so evil that it becomes funny, Iago is just toned down enough that there's nothing funny about him--just chilling.
In another sense, Long John Silver--again, really a vicious person who will stop at nothing, but at the same time such a lovable character (thanks in large part to Walt Disney and Robert Newton) that there's a restaurant chain named for him.
And the King and the Duke in Huck Finn. They use Huck and Jim, play their con games in whatever ways they can, and finally turn Jim in.
Finally, Fagin in Oliver Twist--another thoroughly evil person, yet I never quite understood what crime he was hanged for, and I was glad that at the end of the musical Oliver he and the Artful Dodger go dancing off over the horizon.
2007-12-28 04:42:47 · answer #2 · answered by aida 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'll vote for Gro, from The Worm Ourobouros, because he is such a great character but cannot help the appearance at least of treasonous villainy - he operates to a different moral imperative
2007-12-28 04:08:08 · answer #3 · answered by SteveT 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Robin Hood!!!!!
He's been written, sung and performed about for hundreds of years. He was a genuine villain - an outlaw - but the greatest one because he stole from the rich to give to the poor. He has "stood the test of time", and his fame has never diminished. You don't need to have read, listened to, or have watched anything about Robin Hood to know about him.
2007-12-28 07:57:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Whaja mean 'The history of fiction'? Why not just 'fiction'? Or do you mean evil publishers or something? There are plenty, I can assure you.
2007-12-28 04:20:58 · answer #5 · answered by gravybaby 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ms. Coulter from the His Dark Materials Trilogy the reason is self explanatory
2007-12-28 04:07:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Bill Sykes - Oliver Twist.
2007-12-28 04:36:57 · answer #7 · answered by Gladys 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's Hannibal Lecter, of course
2007-12-28 06:14:15 · answer #8 · answered by Lucifer 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Vladimir Harkonnen from 'Dune'.
Evil right to the core!
2007-12-28 04:13:32 · answer #9 · answered by spamfish60 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Artemis Fowl!!! haha or probably Voldemort
2007-12-28 04:30:31 · answer #10 · answered by minx7♪♫ 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋