Empathy In Killing Eve By Villanelle

Empathy is the ability to understand or identify with the feelings and experiences of another human being. In the television series Killing Eve, Villanelle is a trained assassin operating in Europe. The series portrays her as a psychopath who enjoys watching life draining from her victims’ eyes. While on one of her missions, she encounters Eve, a MI5 security officer who has been looking into the female assassin. Villanelle immediately grows infatuated with Eve. Although the main character does not have empathy, I understand the psychological injuries she suffers, which makes me more empathetic. Villanelle was taken at a very young age in Moscow and trained to be a murderer. A requirement of the program was isolation from friends and family.