Biggest villain in literature?

>>7903747
Harold Bloom

>>79037470 Moby Dick, because the worst villain is inside all of us.
T. high school English teacher.

>>7903747

Iago.

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Thomas Pynchon

Yahweh

>>7903747
The Judge
Mephistopheles
Humbert Humbert
Alex from Clockwork Orange
The Baron Harkonnen
Patrick Batemen
Javert
Sauron
The Red Queen
Jorge of Burgos
>>7903767 this if gnostic
>>7903752 this

I might be biased because I just finished East of Eden but Cathy Ames is a serious contender imo

>>7903747
the reader

>>7903781
great villains don't kill themselves
and wasn't what Cal did ultimately way worse?

Jon Arbuckle. No one else is even 1% as evil as this horrible "man".

Moby-Dick

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>>7903792

>>7903788
10/10

letto2

Blicero from Gravity's Rainbow

Edmund Wilson

Fu Manchu

Shylock

>>7903858
this

John Galt

Which character would be the final boss of all literature? The head honcho all the other villains work for?

the Demiurge

>>7903872
demiurge did nothing wrong

>>7903858
He explains himself adequately enough.

>>7903858

If you think Shylock is a villain in the same way Iago is a villain, you've completely misunderstood the character. Shylock is more like a tragic hero who has lost his way. He really is too great a personage to be dealing with the pettiness of the play he is trapped in.

>>7903747

God
Edith Stoner
Steerpike

>>7903888
>Edith Stoner
I mean, her motivations are human and her frailties can either be explained by her 19th century weakness as a woman or by her 21st century oppression by the patriarchy ala Sylvia Plath. She is a piece of shit, but to compare her to Iago or The Judge or John Arbuckle is a bit much.

Same with Shylock. Human frailty that in the end transforms the character into an antagonist isnt the same as pervasive evil.

Catherine in East of Eden
She's your contemporary average white woman

>>7903888
>Edith Stoner
7/10 decent bait

>>7903910
>>7903923

How about Arabella Donn, then?

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>>7903877
This. It did what it could with whatever abilities it had. If anything, we should turn against the Monade at the side of the Demiurge.

>>7903929
haven't read that book

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>>7903929
Also a piece of shit but her motivations are obvious. Who wants to be a pig farmer. She is a social climber but not "evil".

Pic related is most evil non-supernatural female character I can think of.

>>7903929
How about Lady Macbeth
Nurse Ratched
the mother and grandmother from Flowers in the Attic
Carries Mom

I think you'd struggle to find any villain as nasty, sinister, and intensely lethal (victim count is in the trillions) as Lord English, if he even counts.

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>>7903942

>>7903884
>>7903887
Spot the Jew...

>>7903956
I had to recite his monologue in highschool. Its a pretty adequate response

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th7euZ30wDE

>>7903791
Cal was a much more human character though, acting the way he did because he was hurt if I remember correctly, it's been a while. Everything Cathy did was just because she was absolutely evil in a base way. From her very introduction Steinbeck says she's just missing part of what makes people human.

>>7903747

Alec D'Urberville is a fucking shitbag.

>>7903964
I kind of like Jews you know

>>7903930
>we should turn against the Monade
You don't understand.

Cao Cao

>>7903747
Human.

>>7904288
Absolutely! Worst enemy of mankind is Human!

>>7903747
Pol Pot

>>7903747
Mao Zedong

>>7903747
society

>>7903964
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXneIjC01D0&nohtml5=False

Anything world-eating is the most destructive objectively.

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>>7903747
This exists, so...

>>7903858
Why?

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atticus finch

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>>7903872
This.

Consciousness.

>>7903747
God

>>7904412
Because DA JOOOOS Don't Want The Aryan Race Riding The Tiger Heil Trump 2016

>>7903747
Time.

Dumb thread. But these are good
>>7903749
>>7903788

The I'm writer.

>>7903780
>Humbert Humbert
I think you meant to say Lolita

>>7904569
I think you meant to say Gaston.

>>7903888
>Edith Stoner
>thinking Edith Stoner was the villain
Do people on /lit/ just not know how to read?
If you're going to call Edith Stoner a villain then you need to call the entire human race villainous

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The Author

>>7903751
Captain ahab.

>>7903951
Crimson King you fuckwit