Villains (Reflection 10)

For some reason villains are very appealing to us as readers of the book or viewers of the film. They usually have one of the two lead roles throughout the novel. I feel like they are so interesting because they should be a lot different from who you are. Usually you can’t identify what is going through the villains mind while they commit awful crimes or hurt others. It makes me want to understand their motives causing me to dig more into who they really are. Usually the villain has a bit of a soft side which keeps us attracted to their character because we hope that the softness with overtake the evilness and cruel behavior he/she does.  Villains shows culture what is capable of happening if power or the focus is on the wrong people. For example, the man who shot up the movie theater is a straight up villain. I can see this written in a novel making him the perfect villain character. It’s sad that we have villains in this world. They are capable of doing so much harm to the population whether they are motivated from an episode of criminal minds or simply reading a novel.