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Not all villains are criminals, but they are generally mean, angry and violent. The three villains being compared are Mr. William Sikes from ‘Oliver Twist’ by Charles Dickens, Magwitch from ‘Great Expectations’ by Charles Dickens and Mr Hyde from ‘Dr. ... This discussion will compare and contrast the villain’s, actions, words, physical appearance, and the way other characters respond to the villains.
As villains they are all very different but they do have similarities, they all give the reader a sense of unease; William Sikes is ‘known to the police’ and is aggressive to his dog, whilst Magwitch is an escaped prisoner who threatens Pip, Mr Hyde is not aggressive in this extract but makes the lawyer in the uneasy, he says ‘God bless me the man seems hardly human’, he is a very disturbing character and appears mad. ... The victim he chooses is a defenceless boy, but Magwitch seems the least frightening of the three villains. This villain however looks more threatening and menacing, as along with the ‘broken shoes, with an old rag tied around his head’ he also has a ‘great iron on his leg’ suggesting he is an escaped prisoner. ...
Mr Hyde was not very attractive and he had ‘Satan’s signature on his face’ and ‘the look of him, even from a distance went somehow strongly against the watcher’s inclination’. ...
Mr Hyde makes the lawyer, Mr Utterson, uneasy from the beginning, although he does nothing particularly alarming ‘yet his attention had never before been so sharply and decisively arrested’. ...
‘Oliver Twist’ sets up the villain very well in my opinion, as it really puts the reader on edge- ‘in the obscure parlour of a low public house, dingy and hidden’. ... The first sentence appears idyllic, then the paragraph builds to describe the ‘dark, flat wilderness’ and the ‘distant savage lair’ that was the sea and then the villain is introduced as a surprise in what appears to be a description of the countryside.
Approximate Word count = 1604
Approximate Pages = 6.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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