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.
Printable View
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.
Baron Hulot in Balzac's Cousin Bette.
"Forget the devils. We're dealing in angels now." (something like that)
Had me in stitches.
I think we're going to need a bigger boat.
I eat sharks, boats, sailor's legs, and undergraduates. . . . for fun and for spite!
"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!
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
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
From the not-exactly-faithful-to-the-book film...
I'm set up for this one.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
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 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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
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.
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Adolescent09
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! :)
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.
I think I will go with King Claudius.
And I'll go with Snow Queen.
OOooh this is a good one I forgot about.Quote:
Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf
What about Saruman and Sauron from The Lord of the Rings.