{"id":264816,"date":"2008-09-26T13:33:25","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T13:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/09\/26\/villains\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:29:49","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:29:49","slug":"villains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/09\/26\/villains\/","title":{"rendered":"Villains!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This list of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/arts\/main.jhtml?xml=\/arts\/2008\/09\/20\/bovillains120.xml&#38;page=1\">50 Greatest Villains in Literature<\/a> is pretty entertaining. Here are a few of the villains who made it:<\/p>\n<p><b>38 Gil-Martin from <em>The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner<\/em>, by James Hogg.<\/b><br \/>\nDemon? Doppelganger? Symptom of dementia? Whatever the identity of the tempter Gil-Martin in James Hogg&#8217;s one-off work of 19th-century post-modernism, his effect on the fragile Calvinist intellect of the protagonist is instant and terrible. &#8220;I have no parents save one, whom I do not acknowledge,&#8221; claims Gil-Martin, smoothly urging his proteg\u00e9 towards bloodshed and terror in one of the creepiest theological polemics ever put to paper. TM<\/p>\n<p>(May be my ignorance, but I think this counts as an example of an obscure author brought to light via an ingenious reprint.)<\/p>\n<p><b>34 Clare Quilty from <em>Lolita<\/em>, by Vladimir Nabokov<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Enchanted hunter and sexual deviant Quilty stalks Humbert Humbert and his beloved like a malevolent ghost. He runs off with the beleaguered Lolita after posing as her uncle, but cruelly dumps her when she refuses to star in one of his home-made blue movies. SM <\/p>\n<p><b>4 Iago from <em>Othello<\/em>, by William Shakespeare<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Othello&#8217;s &#8220;honest, honest&#8221; subordinate, quietly intent on the destruction of his boss&#8217;s world for reasons whose slightness has nettled critics ever since. Coleridge&#8217;s formulation &#8220;the motive-hunting of motiveless malignity&#8221; seems the best answer: behind the smiles and jokes, Iago&#8217;s mind is pure seething white noise. TM <\/p>\n<p>and number 1?<\/p>\n<p><b>Satan from <em>Paradise Lost<\/em>, by John Milton<\/b><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a school of thought that the villain of Paradise Lost is actually God. But Milton wouldn&#8217;t, at least consciously, have subscribed. Satan is the rebel&#8217;s rebel, the villain&#8217;s villain &#8211; &#8220;Hell within him for within him Hell\/ He brings&#8230;&#8221; Easily clinches the top spot in our evil-dude hit parade. SL <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This list of the 50 Greatest Villains in Literature is pretty entertaining. Here are a few of the villains who made it: 38 Gil-Martin from The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, by James Hogg. Demon? Doppelganger? Symptom of dementia? Whatever the identity of the tempter Gil-Martin in James Hogg&#8217;s one-off work of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1836,15146],"class_list":["post-264816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-villains"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356776,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264816\/revisions\/356776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}