In ‘Macbeth’ there are many evil characters but the one were going to be talking about is the evil, selfish, ambitious Macbeth. Throughout the play Macbeth causes much pain and suffering for all characters in the text for example, Macbeth kills his wise, respected, leader King Duncan; this action would be taken as regicide, this action is basically a royal murder. In my opinion the evil, tyrant Macbeth links to the themes ambition, greed and selfishness. A quote to support this is: ‘I go, and it is done the bell invites me’ this portrays Macbeth’s more selfish side as his wife’s persuasion left him jumping to take the crown
for his own to fulfil his ‘vaulting ambition’. This quote is so important the reason for this, is because the two words ‘I’ and ‘done’ make Macbeth seem more ambitious, the word ‘done’ illustrates that Macbeth’s ‘direst cruelty’ came out on top and made his ‘ vaulting ambitions’ come true this also, shows that Macbeth couldn’t wait to complete ‘th’ assassination’ and become the new king. However, the word ‘I’ also shows that the ‘th’ assassination’ to kill Duncan was all him and his own choices that he decided to make.
However, in ‘Animal Farm’ there’s only one real villain, Napoleon. Throughout the book Napoleon transforms and dramatically changes in to a monstrous, intelligent, violent animal on the ranch. In my opinion the character Napoleon represents the themes power, violence and selfishness.