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Building Characters: The Villain by Wayne Parker
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The Greatness of the Villain The villain, the central negative character, supports the hero in being heroic. A hero can grow with his tasks and prove his worthiness when he has a gigantic opponent whom he must defeat: the greater the villain, the worthier the hero. The villain is the hero's most important task. The greatest villains in fiction are undoubtedly Milton's Lucifer and Goethe's Mephisto whose objectives are no less than to corrupt and debase mankind. They are the fiercest fiends of every human being living and a formidable challenge for a hero. The greatness of the villain character originates in the motivation and that's the reason why the motivation of the villain is so important. The villain should not be evil without reason or simply by nature, should he be convincing. He must have his purposes and pursue them relentlessly. These purposes should also not appear out of thin air. They must be well founded and dear to the villain. A far-fetched villain's purpose would be, for example, overpowering the hero. The villain is not interested in the hero. He wants to control something or somebody; he does not care for any heroes. For the villain the hero starts to exist first when he wants to take something away from him or even to kill him. The "White" Villain Usually, a villain realizes himself as a villain and a bad person, but the moral aspect of his actions does not interest him, it does not exist for him. He takes interest only in the final result. The "white" villain, to the contrary, has morally high-put purposes and grand intentions, but he has chosen the wrong means and the wrong way for realizing them: the final result is mirror-inverted, it is evil. The greatest villains of fiction are tragic and moving characters. If the villain has his ideals and good intentions and does not wallow in vice, then he is a tragic character. It is easy to frame to a villain profligacy and malice. But if he can quote from the Bible and leads a healthy life, if he is exceedingly intelligent and believes in a cause which is good in itself, but he has got lost on the way to this cause, then he is a tragic character. In most cases, he has carried it too far and has lost the balance, so that his good purposes have led him to bad actions. The readers mostly identify with the positive characters and suffer with them. The "white" villain gives them the opportunity to deal with being in the wrong and to learn from the situation. writing services uk/a>
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