Lit Hub had a reader poll to determine the evilest literary character. Maybe not surprisingly in the Trump era, Orwell’s dictator won.
Tag Archives: Evil
Mirror on the Wall, Who Is Evilest?
Posted in Ayn Rand, Uncategorized Also tagged 1984, Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy, Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, George Orwell, Sigmund Freud, Stand, Stephen King, Walt Kelly Comments closed
“Othello’s” Toxic Relationships
“Othello” continues to raise urgent questions that we’ve got to grapple with.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Othello, Relationships, Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Satan Strikes Again, This Time in Aurora
The shootings in Aurora, Colorado call forth literary works about evil stalking the world, including “Beowulf” and “Paradise Lost.”
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Aurora shootings, Beowulf, John Milton, Paradise Lost, spree killings Comments closed
Is There a Price for Doing Evil?
In a dinner conversation with academic colleagues and novelist Rachel Kranz, we grappled with the question of whether those who commit atrocities pay a price for doing so. I came to the conclusion that it is a question that novelists and poets are sometimes better at answering than academics.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Mask of Evil", Bertolt Brecht, Nazis, Rachel Kranz, racism, Suffering Comments closed
