Loving Villains

I love intellectually literary villains because they are tough, foul-mouthed, bold, daring, brave and unafraid of life, people, things or death, and have a dramatic flair that is to my liking. I find the following dull, therefore I am not attracted to them: Oedipus, Creon, Hamlet, Lear and Othello, whereas I madly love these naughty boys and girls: Medea, Agave, Richard III, Barabbas Jew of Malta, Shylock, Thersytes, Viloet Venable, Karla Zachanasian, Pozzo, Hamm, Nat Goldberg, Marquis de Sade. I love them for their cynicism, curses, swears and railings against people and human nature and the supernatural