A great villain must be someone who brings great suffering and pain to benefit their power. The ruthless queen of Westerios Cersei Lannister is the perfect example of this great villain considering what she put every one around her through. Her actions will speak louder than her words. In the land of Westerios there is no good or evil kingdom, just the people inside like Cersei. Cersei is a Lannister that married king Rob, who was king of the Iron Throne, to get his power eventually. When Cersei takes the power away from the Stark family, it's a struggle between power and taking back what's rightfully yours. When she killed the king of the North his children have tried to find multiple ways to bring her down. However, its not just the Stark children and Cersei, but other kingdoms that go through the same thing. The purpose is really a game of who is more clever and who can get the most power. Somehow, however, it …show more content…
After arranging her husband's death she killed his friend and the Stark family's father, Ned Stark to keep her affairs safe. She convince her eldest son to beat the eldest daughter of Ned. Every single one of Ned's children have suffered and some have died because of Cersei. This misery she puts them through is to make sure they won't be able to defeat her from her power driven thirst. When her son died she did everything in her power to manipulate the witnesses to throw her younger brother in jail. By the time her brother killed her father she came to be in control of the capital in her kingdom. This shows that she only cares what belongs to her giving her a brute personality. She has made a lot of reckless political mistakes and tried to frame her youngest son's bride that instead backfired onto her. After she has payed for her crimes she proceeds to kill her young son and blew up the capital hall filled with people including her son's
Literary villains are all around us. For instance, Voldemort from Harry Potter and Darth Vader from Star Wars. What makes a villain? They will go through anyone or damage anything to reach their goal. No matter how small or how tall they are, anyone can be a villain.
led her to neglect her son at the end of ‘I’m the king of the castle’,
In every story there seems to be villains and heroes, but what if it seems like there are only villainous people? In Wuthering Heights there is only one man who can only be slightly connected to being a hero, Heathcliff ("Wuthering Heights"). There were also heros and villains in the other stories. In Beowulf there is Beowulf as the hero and Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and the dragon as the villains. In Beowulf the villains are all slayed by Beowulf and he saves the Danes. Another example is Arthur becoming the hero in Le M...
Elizabeth’s relationship with her elder male cousin, the Duke of Norfolk, was not good at all. The Duke of Norfolk wanted to kill Elizabeth because he wanted to become the king of England. Becoming the king of England was impossible while Elizabeth was still the queen. When Mary was on her deathbed with cancer the Duke of Norfolk tried to get Mary to sign a paper that would allow him to kill Elizabeth and become King of England. The Duke of Norfolk would speak against Queen Elizabeth and try to turn England against her. At one meeting she had to lock him and his men up so he wouldn’t cause a disturbance. They both had their differences.
The Most Evil in Macbeth Shakespeare's play, Macbeth, is the tragic story of a once loyal. soldier's quest for the throne of Scotland. He is fuelled by his vaulting ambition and spurred on by his determined wife. Macbeth eventually gets his wish, but at the cost of assassinating the country's leader, and spread suspicion and hatred throughout.
The Greatest Villain In William Shakespeare's Macbeth The word villain can be used today as both serious and comical. For example there are mad villains in cartoons and theatre, for example. wicked stepmother in the play Cinderella are not particularly serious. I'm not going ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It is no secret that every vigorous story needs it's own villain. Well, there has been no villain more wicked and superior than Ursula. Ursula is found in the story "The Little Mermaid." This fiction story would not have a backbone without Ursula and her evil appearances, personality, and abilities. There are many things that make a good villain, but I'd have to say that Ursula from the sea has the best villainous qualities.
According to Webster’s dictionary, the definition of ‘villain’ is “a character in a story, movie, etc., who does bad things” (Merriam-Webster). In John Webster’s play, The Duchess of Malfi, the plot line revolves around a duchess and her two brothers. The Duchess of Malfi is a very twisted and complicated story where the characters are not as they seem. One of the most significant parts of the story line is that the characters that appear to be the villains are not actually the villains. This makes the story complex, but eventually ties it together in unexpected ways. When first reading the play, it is easy to come to the conclusion that the duchess’s two brothers, The Cardinal and Ferdinand, are the villains. However, the Duchess lies and manipulates those closest to her for her own selfish gain. The Duchess is deceitful when she hides her marriage and hides her children even though she knows the drama it will cause in her family, which makes her the true villain in The Duchess of Malfi.
In the book, MacBeth, written by, William Shakespeare, there are many characters with qualities of a good king. On the other hand there are characters throughout the book that have terrible king qualities such as, Lady MacBeth. Lady MacBeth would be the worst King because of the fact she has unstable mental health and is very manipulative. These are not in any way good qualities of a king. Who would want a King, most powerful figure in society, have struggling mental health?
haunting her. By witnessing and participating in the crime of killing the king she is
And she revelled in it, before it became too dangerous. She, unblinkingly, sent countless people to their deaths; she effortlessly imposed dreadful fear upon the young girls in the village, to the extent that one was reduced to insanity. She thought not once to stop, the euphoric indulgence was too great for her, because she could, she did. Ironically throughout her diabolical reign the one redeeming feature she possessed enforced her actions and accusations most powerfully, her illusive childlike innocence.
In the beginning of the play she seems much more blood thirsty in her quest for power, but later it seems that the throne was not worthy enough to constitute the means used to gain it.
How does one create the perfect villain for a story? What qualities are needed in such a character? A good place to start when constructing a villain is to look at William Shakespeare’s villain in Othello, a man called Iago. Iago is wonderfully devious. Throughout the play, he not only poisons Othello’s vision of Desdemona, he does this with no one, except Roderigo, the wiser.
Though this seems despotic, recent reports say that she was just like any other ruler, and was blamed for events that would also have occurred under any other’s rule. Perhaps the saying
...her in order to obtain his wife (Gertrude) as well as the crown to the kingdom. William depicts the females in the play less than positively, and as a result, lead to their own demise. Through the play, Shakespeare illustrates the fallout Queen Gertrude creates for herself as a mother, a wife, and a woman herself through the sacrifice of her own happiness and wellbeing.