132 Top 10 Literary Villains

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

Arts, History, Books

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2018

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Villains! Bad guys ! Femme fatales! We love them in movies - but what about literature? What makes villains so effective (and so essential)? What do they tell us about their authors - and what can they tell us about ourselves? In this episode, Jacke and Mike select the Top 10 Literary Villains of all time. Works, authors, and characters discussed include Shakespeare, Euripides, Cormac McCarthy, Chuck Klosterman, John Milton, John Fowles, Stephen King, Thomas Harris, Emily Bronte, Othello, Medea, Hannibal Lecter, Iago, Lady Macbeth, Charles Dickens, Star Wars, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Judge Holden, Michael Corleone, HAL 9000, Stanley Kubrick, A Clockwork Orange, The Wicked Witch of the West, C.S. Lewis, Ian Fleming, Professor Moriarty, Captain Hook, Long John Silver, Beowulf, Grendel, J.K. Rowling, and J.R.R. Tolkien. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. Learn more about the show at historyofliterature.com or facebook.com/historyofliterature. Contact the host at jackewilsonauthor@gmail.com or @WriterJacke. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio.
0:07.0	Do you read me, Hal? Hello, hell, do you read me?
0:15.0	Hello, hell, do you read me?
0:18.0	Do you read me, Hal?
0:22.0	Affirmative, Dave.
0:24.0	I read you.
0:28.0	Open the pod bay doors, hell.
0:30.0	I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
0:35.0	What's the problem?
0:39.0	I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
0:43.4	What are you talking about, Hal?
0:46.2	This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
0:51.6	I don't know what you're talking about Hal.
0:54.0	I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
1:05.0	Mm-hmm, that's the villainous supercomputer, HAL 9000.
1:10.0	In Stanley Kubrick's classic 1968 film, 2001, a Space Odyssey.
1:17.0	We're looking at bad guys today on the history of literature. Okay, here we go. Hello there. Welcome to the show, I'm Jack Wilson, your host. I'm a good guy, I hope. I'm wearing the white
1:46.5	hat, or I try to. I'm just doing my best, people. This is a fun topic today. What makes a good literary villain? Is it his or her
1:56.7	creepy physical appearance? A willingness to commit atrocious crimes? Does the villain need a good motive, a good
2:05.2	backstory, or can they just be plain evil for evil sake? Mike Pallandrome, the president of the Literature Supporters Club,
2:15.0	is joining us to help us figure it all out
2:18.0	and to select our top 10 literary villains.
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