Creating Villains People Love To Hate Summary

In Lee Masterson’s, “Creating Villains People Love to Hate”, she illustrates how villains who lack proper motive and composure lead readers to push away from any emotional interest from the plot itself. By explaining her argument on how every villain should be portrayed and illustrated, through a general and broad sense, readers are properly able to understand why certain villains may not contribute fully to a plot through her appeal to logos. However, in their articles, Fischoff and Freeman both tackle their arguments of “Heroes and Villains” from different angles and perspectives. Fischoff illustrates a similar relationship of villains directly through a cinematic aspect by the impact it has had on the film industry. In addition, Freeman’s

He makes the appeal that “not all heroes wear capes” and how the most overlooked group of people make up the most fundamental part of society. His approach works out in the sense where he says how the working class has contributed, as he references their efforts in past historical events that point out their success as “heroes” from World War II from the 70’s to the aftermath of September 11th. By saying this, he illustrates how they have always been hiding in the shadows in their cubicles creating the effort to make New York, and subsequently America, a better place for society. While his argument seems credible for the most part based on its historical context, it becomes incoherent leading away from the “heroes” aspect. It indistinctively becomes more of an informative article on the rebuilding and economics of New York. Freeman says after the events of 9/11, “Already, political and business leaders have called for appointing a rebuilding authority, empowered to circumvent zoning and environmental regulations and normal controls over public spending” (733). He clearly pushes away from the working class and more towards the call to action for government. Small disjointed tangents away from the fact that the working class as heroes makes his argument ultimately fail. He leads more into the business, economic, and social structure than the actual heroes themselves. His argument on the working class in New York gets off topic frequently connecting one somewhat linear explanation of the working class bettering New York