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Villains In Bond Novels
The roles the villains/ nemesis play within the Bond novels isn’t unique per say, but without them, there would definitely be no Bond novels. Each villain Bond faces shapes who Bond is as a character. They test Bond’s limits and they provide him with the tools to make himself look good within the novel and films. Every good guy has a bad guy to fight type situation is what we see in the Bond novels. Though Bond is tortured and put to the test by these villains, he always comes out on top. The villain will lose. It is just something you can come to expect from Bond when facing a villain or nemesis.
Within the Bond novels, the villains seemed to be ahead of Bond for a short second, but it always turns out that Bond is able to outsmart them before they are able to outsmart him.
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There hadn’t been a villain or nemesis that Bond couldn’t bring down. Villains had taken special women from Bond’s life and made him work in the attempts to take them down, but the villains hadn’t had a chance to attempt to take the shine away from Bond.
This leads up to the novel, “On Her Majesty's Secret Service,” and the villain, Blofeld. Blofeld brought a fresh breath of air to what the thought of a Bond villain/ nemesis would be considered to be. The story leads to believe that Bond has won. It tells the reader that Blofeld is killed or suspected to be killed by Bond. Bond has the leg up in the situation, just like he always does. Though this is not the case when it comes to Blofeld. Blofeld became a frustrating case for Bond. Blofeld got under Bond’s skin to the point that Bond wanted to give up being an agent. Bond couldn’t deal with the fact that Blofeld was

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