Jack and Roger are both wrongly assumed to be psychopaths, when they are just kids with mixed up morals. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth are both driven characters, however Macbeth, the most ‘noble’ was the one with blood on his hands. Malcolm, Piggy, and Ralph are the characters that don’t appear at first glance to be what they really are, Piggy and Ralph are killers and Malcolm is a psychopath.
When people think of psychopaths in famous literature they think of Hannibal Lector or Moriarty.
However, two pieces of well known literature show that the word psychopath and killer are not synonymous. They show that not all killers are psychopaths and not all psychopaths are