Hate Me Villains

How do villains become the villains that we know them as? Because You Love To Hate Me is an anthology that describes how the villains we know and love come into existence. For those people who do not know what an anthology is, it is a collection of stories or poems. Some of the villains that are in these stories are, the giant from Jack and the Beanstalk, The Sea Witch from The Little Mermaid, the Greek myth of how Medusa came to be the Medusa we all fear and, a modernized version of the descendants of the tale Beauty and the Beast. There is a total of thirteen stories in this book. Seven of the stories were based on the life of a villain that already had a future. But the other six stories are made up by the author of that certain story. “Within

The popular belief of what a villain is is that they are incapable of love and that is why they are a villain. However, what if being in love and being betrayed was what made them the villain that they are. Some of the antagonists in major stories have just been denied love and the person or people that they trusted to love them back betrayed them. When some villains are betrayed they won’t let anybody see their emotions ever again for fear that they could be shattered again. “After all, what was a lifetime of pain when coupled with a lifetime of bliss?”(Meyer 163). This section of the book is about the Sea Witch from the story of The Little Mermaid. The Sea Witch, Nerit, is an outcast in the ocean and all she wants is to fit in. Nerit was trying to create a love potion so the prince, Lorindel, would fall in love with her, she was not able to succeed and the prince and his friends caught her, but they also ransacked her house, a cave. She was very sad so she went and sat on the beach where a human, Samuel, came and saw her and started talking to her. Nerit started to fall in love with Samuel, they decided that Nerit somehow needed to turn into a human so they could be together. She goes into her spell book and finds a potion that will turn her into a human, but she will have to live with the feeling that daggers are plunging into her feet every time she takes a step. When Nerit says this, she is thinking about how the physical pain of her feet will not be able to ever meet the feelings that she has for Samuel. When she turns into a human and is waiting for Samuel on their beach, he sees her and is immediately disappointed, he had a deal to capture a mermaid, not a human. Samuel did not love Nerit at all, he betrayed her and her trust. Samuel abandoned her on the beach, and she started wandering from one coastal town to another. The only way that Nerit would be able to go