A victim is someone who is harmed by another and a villain is someone who did something wrong and someone whose actions harmed another. Philip Molloy, The main character from the Edward Irving Wortis documentary novel, “Nothing But The Truth”, decides to not tell the whole truth and led to ruining both his teachers career and his dream to become an olympic track star. Phillip harmed both miss Narwin dream to become an olympic track star. Therefor he is a villain. Philip Molloy decides to not tell
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who truly embody and possess typically masculine characteristics (chivalry, a wish to fight to protect women, strength etc) are both depicted as being wrong, evil, and negative. The first of these two men is Gaston. Gaston is by all accounts, the villain of the piece. His great crime? He believes that he has a duty to woo Belle, something which in context is not such a bad act. He believes, according to the long espoused value of men being the ones to make the first move, of men being the ones who
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Villains are the reason heroes exist.Villains are there for the sole reason to defeat the hero, villians create the problems, heroes try to fix it.Villians exist everywhere they can be made up in stories,games,shows,movies,and in art.Villains can be real aswell such as one of my villains who is responsible for killing a hero named John Fitzgerald Kennedy, though it is not certain who did it but evidence and hypothesis leads to Lee Harvey Oswald.The other villains is fictitious it is the prophets
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On one hand the creature can be seen as a victim of Frankenstein’s thirst for knowledge a he is created against his own will and then rejected by his creator. However, he can also be seen as a victim of society and nature. On the other hand, it can be argued that the creature is rather a villain than a victim as he is physically powerful and is able to use his power. Furthermore, he is able to use his circumstances to benefit himself by leaning the common language and adapting to Nature. The creature
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The roles of Victim, Villain, and Venerable are crucial to developing plot and action within a novel. While most novels boast these traits as a part of three separate characters, there are some single protagonists who display all three. An example of this can be found in the character of Guy Montag from the work Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. In different chapters, Guy is found to act in honourable, disgraceful, and pitiful ways. The victim aspect of Guy’s character is best personified in the constant
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trademark iron helmet and armour, he has managed to hold our attention. Ned Kelly's story has been argued and re-told over and over again, but the question still remains, is he a hero or a villain? For some, Ned Kelly is known as a hero, as he stood up for his beliefs and what he believed was right. He was a victim of fraudulent police and forced to become an outlaw. The people saw him as Australia's equivalent to Robin Hood, as he was known to bring back the money he stole to the poor. This earned
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Edgar Allan Poe the offended villain Montresor is planning the murder of his recent fellow the Fortunato. The used language of the short story depicts Montressor’s nature and presents to the reader the cold blooded and cynical villain. The course of the short story reveals the cold blooded nature of Montresor. Fortunato, the victim, despite the nature of his poetic name that could symbolize the fortune, had a misfortune to offend the tactical killer Montresor. The villain of the short story was brought
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The Villain Detective Alexander Morgan was disgusted by the sight he had to endure after receiving an urgent 911 call. Her name was Penny Breese and her face was slit buccal to buccal; her orbitals were cut out. Detective Morgan knew whose handy work this was judging by the small switchblade left hanging out of Penny’s coxal, but he still asked the medical examiner “What’s the word on this one?” The medical examiner, Sarah, explained that she was still alive through every cut, and the last cut
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1. What are the pressures that lead executives and managers to "cook the books?" In the 1990’s WorldCom was a growing and successful telecommunications company, involved in may acquisitions, and had made some ‘Mega Deals” in the telecommunications industry. The Company was becoming very profitable, but in 1999 revenue growth had stopped causing the price of stock to fall. This was due to the down turn in telecommunications industry, an increase in competition, the overcapacity in the telecommunications
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A villain is a character whose evil actions or motives are important to the plot of a play, novel or film. The obvious villains of Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’ and Marlowe’s ‘The Jew of Malta’ would be Shylock and Barabas respectively as these two characters are both depicted as evil and greedy Jews, perhaps due to the racial hatred of the Elizabethan era and the ongoing stigma of Judaism in English society. However, it could be argued that the women of the two plays, including the daughters
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