the bad guy in literature

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Originally Posted by Dark Muse

Now that you mention that, Fairy Tales in general offer a plethora of villainous females

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that is very true.
I just remembered snow white of course. the mother in law.

Daisy from The Great Gatsby? Sort of? Smashing up dreams and whatnot?

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Originally Posted by cacian

that is very true.
I just remembered snow white of course. the mother in law.

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A substantial amount of my academic work has been given over to examining the figure of the evil step-mother (or 'witch-queen' as I prefer) in the early medieval literature that ultimately lies behind the later villain of Germanic fairytale. IF nothing else, as a villain figure she exercised a powerful hold over the imagination of the medieval North.