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Scheherazade
07-20-2012, 11:55 AM
Who are your favourite villains from literature?

Favourite quotes?

I find the stepmother concept in literature quite entertaining... Like Snow White's or Cinderella's; how purposefully vindictive and cruel they can be.
crusoe
07-20-2012, 01:52 PM
Baron Hulot in Balzac's Cousin Bette.

"Forget the devils. We're dealing in angels now." (something like that)

Had me in stitches.
papayahed
07-20-2012, 02:52 PM
I think we're going to need a bigger boat.
The Comedian
07-20-2012, 04:09 PM
I eat sharks, boats, sailor's legs, and undergraduates. . . . for fun and for spite!
prendrelemick
07-20-2012, 04:14 PM
"You may go into the fields or down the lane, but don't go into into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor."



There's no negotiation, no second chances, if he catches you - you're rabbit pie!
Emil Miller
07-20-2012, 05:04 PM
Here's Robert Newton as archvillan Bill Sykes sitting between Alec Guinness as Fagin and Kay Walsh as Nancy under David Lean's direction in Oliver Twist 1948.

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/1031/olivertwiste.jpg
LitNetIsGreat
07-20-2012, 05:24 PM
I'll keep mine as Dorian then. This way I get to join in and at the same time keep to my usual can't-be-bothered-or -willing-to -change-the-avatar thing self!

Edit: also, quite freakishly, I also seem to look more and more like my avatar each day. Definitely too much time on Litnet.
Emil Miller
07-20-2012, 05:46 PM
I'll keep mine as Dorian then. This way I get to join in and at the same time keep to my usual can't-be-bothered-or -willing-to -change-the-avatar thing self!

Edit: also, quite freakishly, I also seem to look more and more like my avatar each day. Definitely too much time on Litnet.

What I don't understand about your avatar is why it represents Dorian Gray. Isn't it the antithesis of the handsome Victorian male.
billl
07-20-2012, 05:51 PM
From the not-exactly-faithful-to-the-book film...
Paulclem
07-20-2012, 06:15 PM
I'm set up for this one.
LitNetIsGreat
07-20-2012, 06:49 PM
What I don't understand about your avatar is why it represents Dorian Gray. Isn't it the antithesis of the handsome Victorian male.

Oh, it's just some modern interpretation I think, I didn't really think about it much when I stuck it in a few years back but it has grown on me more and more. Probably because I am on here too bloody much.
Helga
07-20-2012, 07:48 PM
I counsel the King when I find it necessary but I serve the white one

It's late I'll find a quote tomorrow




I find the stepmother concept in literature quite entertaining... Like Snow White's or Cinderella's; how purposefully vindictive and cruel they can be.

I agree, I love stepmothers and the jealous nature they represent. This was actually a problem in my house after reading a few fairytales with evil stepmothers cause I had to explain to my son that his dads fiance is his stepmother but nice and she would never be this evil.
Adolescent09
07-20-2012, 07:58 PM
Oh, it's just some modern interpretation I think, I didn't really think about it much when I stuck it in a few years back but it has grown on me more and more. Probably because I am on here too bloody much.

That last part had me laughing a bit. IMHO I like your avatar. I've seen more of it than you might care to think as I have been snooping around the general section without posting for the past 3 years.

I can't remember any specific quotes from Milady or Medea. I'm surprised neither of them have been mentioned here yet; two behemoth female antagonists from The Three Musketeers and Euripides' Medea. Both were ostensibly cruel.
Gladys
07-20-2012, 08:17 PM
The beautiful and admirable Kate Croy from Henry James's The Wings of the Dove. I loved her.

One only begins to appreciate her villainy long after finishing the novel. Her father's daughter.
LitNetIsGreat
07-20-2012, 08:46 PM
That last part had me laughing a bit. IMHO I like your avatar. I've seen more of it than you might care to think as I have been snooping around the general section without posting for the past 3 years.

Well one half laugh for the last three years is about on form for me (comedy is good because being serious in this world is not worth it), but thanks for liking the avatar.

Hell not posting in here for three years, and then two in one go, chatterbox, stop going on and on and on, give us a rest, Christ, yak, yak! :)
JuniperWoolf
07-21-2012, 02:19 AM
Milton's Lucifer, of course.

All is not lost; the unconquerable
Will, And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield;
That glory never shall his wrath or might extort from me.
Monamy
07-21-2012, 03:09 AM
I think I will go with King Claudius.
Snowqueen
07-21-2012, 04:22 AM
And I'll go with Snow Queen.
Adolescent09
07-22-2012, 01:34 AM
Milton's Lucifer, of course.

All is not lost; the unconquerable
Will, And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield;
That glory never shall his wrath or might extort from me.

OOooh this is a good one I forgot about.

What about Saruman and Sauron from The Lord of the Rings.