Sebastian Morgenstern: The Villain

"The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture."- Alfred Hitchcock. In the world of film and literature, villains have been used to show the opposite of the hero. Where the hero is strong and makes honorable decisions, the villain is usually self-centered and uses evil to damage the lives of others for his own purposes. Villains sometimes fill others with fear, anger and occasional sadness. In general, every great tale of a hero also has a villain that readers love to hate. In the urban fantasy book series “The Mortal Instruments,” by Cassandra Clare, set in modern day New York this series’ great tale of heroes also has a villain that readers love to hate. Sebastian Morgenstern, this series’ main villain, Sebastian is a
Shadowhunters in their fight to protect mankind, shadowhunters also bear the duty of protecting Mortal Instruments. The Mortal Instruments, three divine objects the Angel Raziel gave to his children. One is the Mortal Sword, the second is the Mortal Mirror and last is the Mortal cup. For a thousand years, the Nephilim have protected the Mortal Instruments. But that was before the Uprising, a civil war that almost tore the Shadow world apart. Though Valentine Morgenstern, the Shadowhunter who started the war, is long dead, the wounds it left behind have never healed. Fifteen years have passed since the Uprising, but is the war really over. Rumor has it in the Downworld that Valentine is back, at the head of an army of Demonic warriors, and the Mortal Cup has gone missing. This cup has the power to create and control Shadowhunters and demons. Enter Clary Fray, daughter of Valentine and Jocelyn Fairchild, hidden from the shadow world all her life, but one night, sixteen-year-old Clary learns the truth. Clary enters the shadow world, falls in love, saves her mom from her evil father Valentine and defeats him. Everything seems fine, but turns out now she has an evil brother to deal
It was administered to him by his father, Valentine, while his mother, Jocelyn, was pregnant. This means Sebastian really is a natural born villain. “It’s ironic Clarissa? We were Valentine’s blood children and he hated us. And me because I was exactly what he created me to be.” Valentine hated Sebastian because although he was the perfect soldier and warrior, Sebastian was also heartless, he fought with no remorse and therefore could never be controlled. All Sebastian, deep down, really wants is a family, but in an effort to gain that he loses the only people in the world who could possibly care about him. Clary, his sister and Jace Wayland. Jace, like Sebastian, was raised by Valentine, so in a way there are brothers, anyways Jace and his love Clary are the only people in the world Sebastian knows could possibly ever love him. Nevertheless Sebastian still is a villain, so of course neither Jace or Clary would willingly love him, which is why Sebastian’s actions are him trying to force Clary and Jace to love him. Sebastian was abandoned by his mother when he was just a baby, he was raised by a father, who cared more about making him the perfect warrior that about him being the perfect son. Sebastian truly has never felt or received real love, so his actions are based on the fact that he believes that with enough effort and hardship, he can force others to love him. Even