Ned Kelly : HERO OR VILLAIN? People have always argued about Ned Kelly and whether he was a hero of a villain. In my eyes he was neither hero or villain. If anything he was a heroic villain. Ned Kelly was just an Australian with Irish born parents who was given a hard time by the Australian police officers. When he was blamed for shooting a police officer he went on the run as an outlaw. The police bullied and picked on his friends and family‚ imprisoning his mother and some of his friends
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Evil Villains in Northanger Abbey In Jane Austen ’s‚ Northanger Abbey‚ John Thorpe and General Tilney are portrayed as unpleasant villains. Villains are defined as‚ "a wicked or evil person; a scoundrel" (The American Heritage Dictionary http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=VILLAIN). Austen description of both men as power-hungry‚ easily upset‚ and manipulative follows this definition. She introduces both characters in separate parts of the book‚ however simultaneously she delivers a stunning
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Someone’s evil could be easily identified by his/her malevolent intentions and acts of cruelty toward others people. Villains‚ well known as dictators‚ usually tend to have all these characteristics. Through the history there are many examples of dictators as the government of Adolf Hitler‚ who totally wanted to eliminate all people who did not meet the physical qualities that he had resigned. Especially he wanted to remove Jews people from German Civil Society. Hitler expressed evil through his
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Iago is the villain of the tragedy Othello but to what extent is he a tragic villain? Iago is portrayed to be an intelligent and deceptive character whom exposes his deceit within the first scene of the play. He explains to Roderigo that ‘I am not what I am’ which could be interpreted as though there are many different levels to him meaning he is a complex character and shows various sides of him to different characters. However it could also mean that no one knows the real him: including Iago himself
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Was Lady Macbeth a Villain? The play Macbeth is centered around an ambitious couple who commit murder in order to seize power. The lead character of the play is Macbeth‚ and after being appointed to Thane of Cawdor. he and his wife decide to kill the king and place the crown upon Macbeth’s head. In the play‚ Lady Macbeth is often seen as the villain‚ but in reality‚ she is ultimately the true victim of the play. She becomes a victim of her ambition‚ her gender‚ and finally her guilt. As soon as
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qualities of fair‚ equal‚ courage‚ brave‚ honest and a positive leader. This makes the opposite a villain a person who wishes wrong for someone or a person who creates evil. The event changes dramatically‚ a hero of the past may not be considered a hero in the present and versa. Hernando Cortes a hero for joining two worlds and conquering the most powerful civilization of America or Hernando Cortes a villain for making the Aztec Empire disappear. Hernando Cortez was an important symbol for the explorations
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In the year of 1451‚ there was the birth of a man named Christopher Columbus‚ the son of a wool merchant. During Columbus early years he was known for sailing around the continent in hopes of finding the new world‚ but‚ later on he became known as an evil person. At the end of the 14th century‚ Christopher Columbus and the Europeans began their search for a direct route to Asia. The Portuguese main focus was to set sail east and south around Africa‚ however‚ Christopher Columbus believed he could
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Christopher Columbus is a man who is known in society simultaneously as a hero and a villain of his time. What if the world had to pick only one‚ what would it be? Many new studies and scholars believe that Columbus was the villain of his story not a hero as past information would lead us to believe. Past documents were all written from Europe’s point of view‚ this lead to extremely biased documents because Europe was the side to profit unlike the Native Americans. Columbus was the antagonist
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characters can be portrayed as both a hero and a villain. Shakespeare shows this in Macbeth through different themes and techniques. Some techniques include; similes‚ irony‚ metaphors and personification. A hero is a person who is admired for their courage‚ outstanding achievements‚ or noble qualities and a villain is the person or thing responsible for specified problems‚ harm‚ or damage. I will be discussing about Macbeth showing how he is more of a villain than a hero. Macbeth is shown as courageous
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Chapter IX Joseph Andrews seems to break away completely from the original intention. Parson Adams‚ who has no counterpart in Pamela‚ runs away with the novel. He "is one of the most living‚ lovable‚ comical bundles of wisdom and simplicity in all literature." In the words of Edmund Gosse‚ "Parson Abraham Adams‚ alone‚ would be a contribution to English letters." He indeed is the hero of the novel‚ and not Joseph Andrews. Fielding was aware of giving a new literary form with Joseph Andrews which he
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