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 who 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