Sunday, February 26, 2017

To understand a villain

Hi my dear readers!:)

It is so nice to welcome you after such a long break! I hope that you didn't lose your interest in my blog and you visited it occasionally to check if something new popped out. I am so sorry that I made you wait so horribly long for a next post, I hope this blank period didn't put you off and you are still there, ready to read and share your opinions!;)

Today I want to pay your attention to the creation of villains which are usually much more interesting and complex characters than heros (in the contest of good men, the opposite of wicked people in the plot). Firstly, I would like to point out that lots of book's, comic's or manga's readers sympathise more with villains than with any other hero in the story. I believe that this prohibited love for those considered as bad has its source in the fact that they are much more real to us than heros who are often perfect human beings without any flaws, who undoubtedly symbolise good and justice and their actions are always praised by other characters in the plot. Moreover, villains are such complicated creatures, whose personality and aims are usually wrong received by readers as they are presented as cold heart bastards who manipulate others, who destroy, who bring death with every step they take. So how is it possible that lot of people give their hearts to villains? Is it morally correct to love someone who's a bad person? Well, those are pretty difficult questions to answer. Personally I really appreciate those spectacular moments in the stories when the truth is revealed, when the author present the horrible past which influenced those considered as cruel and heartless, we can see the events which crashed them, damaged their true personality. Villains are like a shattered glass to me, they are usually people with wounded souls, the ones who live in constant pain looking for someone to rescue them, to understand. I really love stories where authors show you, after a pretty long time, that this person, this scary villain that you probably have hated so much since the very beginning, that he actually loved someone in his life as much as all those good heros you met earlier. Then they present you a period which illustrates his true self, his broken heart, the saddness that overwhelmed him, the tears and the emptiness which still devour him from the inside, the memories that still poison his thoughts. Afterwards, you sit there with a book in your hands and you feel this incredible heartache in your chest that you judged him wrong and you never asked him in your head: what is your story that you hide so carefully behind this mask? Of course bad past doesn't exculpate someone's bad actions, it doesn't allow a person to hurt others, not at all, but it can help to understand human's behaviour, to understand how does it happen that people change. Naturally this type of villains I've mentionned doesn't involve all of them, you can meet a pretty different ones as the story unfolds. I would say that this category is my favourite, that is a villain who's not a monster at heart, but man in pain, bearing with loneliness, fighting everyday with his own nightmares. In my post I do not want to convince you that heros are flat characters or that they are always the same, no, there is many great stories where their personality is amazingly built and whose past didn't spare them and even though it was bad they didn't let it affect their hearts. However, villains are, in my opinion, the odd ones out and much more interesting characters (at least from psychological point of view) and they require a deeper reflection to understand them.

I hope the issue I brought was interesting to you! If you have some objections or personal remarks please share!;) That's all for today! Bye!;)