Villain

Behind The Scenes Everyone needs something to trigger their inspiration or motivation to see or have the impossible happen. Either through supported realistic topics or as an escape from the real world. Humans watch movies to see a different perspective of life or as entertainment. Movies are a huge industry that catches the publics’ eyes in many ways , whether it is through events or things that are displayed or presented in an eye popping matter for example advertisement. The media are…

of Venice. Through the play, he characters pertain to their predicaments as if everything in the world revolves around them. However, there is only one true victim, Shylock, the Jewish moneylender, while characters such as Antonio, and Portia are villains, deceiving the audience into believing that they are the victims. While Antonio willingness to help his friend Bassanio under any circumstances, and Portia being forced of marriage, both characters still confer to victimizing others to meet…

tale was the witch. Having a villain in these classic fairy tales helps to encourage a child’s moral growth and understanding of good and bad. In Hansel and Gretel, the witch is seen as the archetypal villain. She is characterized as ugly, manipulative, and selfish, similar to other villains often found in these classic fairy tales. Bettelheim describes that one of the functions of the archetypal villain is to help teach moral education to younger readers, as the villain in the fairy tales is…

Too many times have heroes been in situations where the greater good of humanity hung in the balance, but they could not help but be empathetic to the other side of the ultimatum that the villain or situation presents. For example if the villain launches a nuke at New York City, but the villain also has the hero’s mother/best friend/girlfriend/wife/etc. held hostage the hero has to put the survival of millions of people over one. While this may seem cold and inhumane to some, logically, saving…

In both films the villains go by Professor and wear a cape. Both villains know the main detective, Sherlock or Basil, from previous encounters, which makes them more cautious when it comes to Watson and Dawson having to help take them down. Also when it comes to the end both Professor Ratigan and…

“House of Cards” The Heroes or the Villains in Charge of Our Democracy Beau Willimon in the television series, “House of Cards” (2013), asserts that manipulation, revenge and coercion are the way to lead a successful career in U.S Politics. Willimon supports his assertion by illustrating through the Netflix series the ruthless actions taken by a politician named Frank Underwood to rise in the power pyramid. The author’s purpose is to explain the role of the villain in the story, Senator…

heroes determined to defeat their enemies so that good may once again triumph over evil. In these first stories the villain is typically defeated rather easily by our brave champion. As we grow older, however, the face of evil becomes much more powerful and may even win a battle or two before ultimately losing the war against the forces of good. But what if there existed a villain that, when in its strongest form, was so powerful that our hero only fought to keep it from winning at that…

they were past friends and because his pride was hurt he felt he needed to act revenge Homer does this to depict Odysseus as not a hero but a villain who exacts revenge on those who wrong him. Bradbury emphasizes how a lack of compassion within one’s personality and everyday action’s further develops whether a…

affection. They spoiled their child like they assumed every parent did. On an island just off the coast, another parent took the opposite approach. James Hook, Captain of the Jolly Roger, usually left his daughter, Jamie, to fend for herself. As a villain, he wanted his child to every bit as evil as he is, but Jamie was quite far from that. She was disgustingly kind and had a desire to help all those in need, which, as you can guess, made Captain Hook livid. He hit and kicked, slashed and…

Shakespeare hammers home that King Claudius is a villain in this soliloquy as Hamlet exclaims the word “villain” four times in just three lines. Not only does he repeat “villain” throughout, all the lines in which Hamlet calls his uncle a villain, they do not break scansion. Shakespeare also clues the audience in on the fake persona Claudius is presenting as he is described specifically as a “smiling villain” (143) multiple times. The only line that does not scan towards the end…