This weekly book meme officiated in
November 2013. Every week there is a new topic and
your list of 5 nominates will be based off this topic. For further information check
out the Goodreads Page.
The theme this week is: Favorite Villains
1. Long John Silver from Treasure Island by R.L. Stevenson
1. Long John Silver from Treasure Island by R.L. Stevenson
One legged manipulative and fearful pirate, Silver gains the
trust of protagonist Jim Hawkins, only to reveal himself to be the
leader of a mutiny, planning to murder the ship's officers once the
treasure is found. I actually like the guy. Not his cruelty and blood thirst, but his imagination and wit. He was one head above most of the pirates not only because he was feared, but because he dared to do things no one done before.
A picturesque figure of the gothic-fiction world. Bram Stocker sets rules about what a vampire should be and was followed by many authors in gothic-fiction and vampire topic. But only reading the book I realized, how twisted modern vampire fiction has become. So for me Count Dracula is the father of all Gothic villains.
3. Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
He is not 100% villain as in most of the books. Life makes him such a heartless and vindictive person and he is like a demon for this area and most of his deeds cannot be called anything but evil. He does not show any mercy in his revenge, but still he encourages sympathy.
4. Annie Wilkes from Misery by Stephen King
Anne Marie Wilkes, better known as Annie Wilkes, is the main antagonist in Stephen King's 1987 novel Misery. Annie is a severely mentally ill, demented and obsessive nurse and the self-proclaimed biggest fan of her favorite author, Paul Sheldon. This character is so sick and freighting that I like her so much for that.
5. Woland (Satan) from The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Woland is the mysterious foreigner and a professor who is "in Moscow to present a performance of 'black magic' and then expose its machinations". This exposure never occurs; Woland instead exposes the greed and bourgeois behaviour of the spectators themselves. His visit to Moscow sets the plot rolling and turns the world upside-down. This is the most honest and worthy devil I have read about.
2. Count Dracula by Bram Stoker
A picturesque figure of the gothic-fiction world. Bram Stocker sets rules about what a vampire should be and was followed by many authors in gothic-fiction and vampire topic. But only reading the book I realized, how twisted modern vampire fiction has become. So for me Count Dracula is the father of all Gothic villains.
3. Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
4. Annie Wilkes from Misery by Stephen King
5. Woland (Satan) from The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Woland is the mysterious foreigner and a professor who is "in Moscow to present a performance of 'black magic' and then expose its machinations". This exposure never occurs; Woland instead exposes the greed and bourgeois behaviour of the spectators themselves. His visit to Moscow sets the plot rolling and turns the world upside-down. This is the most honest and worthy devil I have read about.
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