Evil In Clive Barker's 'The Thief Of Always'

The Thief of Always
The Thief of always was written by Clive Barker, The Thief of Always is about a boy named Harvey Swick and his adventures in the holiday house. Clive Barker describes evil and how it’s not just the main villain.The theme hood is nearly pure evil for his own sake. Another theme it shows the hero harvey swick is isn’t the perfect boy. Mr. Hood and he almost pure evil in lots of ways.Mr Hood is so evil that takes souls to fill his empty heart. When Harvey goes down to find Ms. Griffin, in the coffin Ms. Griffin said to harvey,“ There's such a terrible emptiness inside him. He wants to fill it with souls, but it's a pit. A bottomless pit “ (87).This says that he wants to fill himself with souls to not feel empty but …show more content…
When Wendell is asking Harvey to eat harvey instead of him, he speaks to himself, “And the more he sobbed, the more Jive's chant made sense to Harvey. Who was this ridiculous boy Wendell anyway? He was too eager to serve Harvey up as dinner to be called a friend. He was just a tasty morsel. Any vampire worth his wings would chew off his head as soon as look at him“ (47).Harvey thought to himself what has wendell ever done for me why should I spare him he wants me to die. Harvey wasn’t thinking, oh he’s just scared, he was thinking wendell is being selfish why shouldn’t I kill him.The second reason why harvey is evil is he loves being a vampire.When Harvey is chasing wendell while he’s a vampire the harvey says to himself.Harvey knew he'd already had his revenge: Wendell was frightened out of his wits. But it was too much fun to stop now. He liked the feel, of the wind beneath him, and the cold moon on his back. He liked the sharpness of his eyes, and the strength of his claws. But most of all he liked the fear he was causing; liked the look on Wendell's upturned face, and the sound of panic in his chest(46). Harvey knew he had his revenge, but he embarrassed his inner vampire and chased Wendell just for the fun of someone else pain showing that he isn’t the amazing kind hearted boy that we …show more content…
The first reason is Rictus is evil for his desire for power. When rictus walked towards harvey after hood dies rictus told harvey , "Long enough to build a new House, and take over where Hood left off. Oh, don't look so unhappy, kid. I got a place for you, right here-" He slapped his thigh. "You can be my bird dog. I'll send you out looking' for kiddie-winkies to bring home to Uncle Rictus." He slapped his thigh a second time. "C'mon!" he said. "Don't waste my time now.(114).Rictus says be my servant we can abduct children to take there soul and turn them into fish. He also stole hoods magic not for the common good, but for his selfish ambitions. The second reason is jive wants harvey to bite wendell. When Harvey is a vampire jive is the one to tell him to bite Wendell "Bite him," said Jive. "Go on. Drink a little of his blood. Why not? The fat's no good, but the blood's hot, the blood's tasty." He was doing a little dance as he spoke, stamping his feet to the rhythm of his chant. "Don't waste the taste! Go eat the meat!"(47). Jive wants harvey to bite Wendell he is telling to bite his best friend even though Harvey has scared wendell enough. Jive wants to cause chaos and just wants harvey to become dark. Even though may not be the brains of operation they are still evil, carrying out hoods task and trying to rebuild the house to turn more kids into