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Monday, September 8, 2025

TTT: Literary Villains


Top Ten Villains in Literature

  1. Bob Ewell (To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee)-the evil racist who who attacks Scout and who wrongly accuses Tom Robinson of raping his daughter.
  2. Humbert Humbert (Lolita by Nabokov)- is the ultimate creepy, creepy guy.
  3. Inspector Javert (Les Miserables by Hugo)- he pursues Jean Valjean for 19 years.
  4. Miss Trunchbull (Matilda by Dahl)- She is mean, mean, mean to little kids.
  5. Mrs. Danvers (Rebecca by du Maurier)- She is so devoted to the first wife, she tries to lure the second wife to commit suicide.)
  6. Cathy Ames (East of Eden by Steinbeck) - She is so cold, cold, cold. A sociopath to the nth degree.
  7. Dr. Frankenstein (Frankenstein by Shelley) - the monster wasn't the villain, The doctor who created him was. He was playing God.
  8. Nurse Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey) - Her rules were more important than truly caring for her patients' mental health.
  9. Ridgeway (The Underground Railroad by Whitehead) - The slave-hunter is relentless in his pursuit of runaway slaves.
  10. Voldemort (The Harry Potter series by Rawling) - He should not-be-named is the biggest villain of them all!
  11. Lady Catherine de Bourgh (Pride and Prejudice by Austen) - She is a snob and thinks she can boss everyone around because she thinks she is better than them.

-Anne
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