Madame Defarge In The Great Gatsby

Lucie is the villain here because she is the reason that Carton(the good guy) dies. He would have never sacrificed himself if lucie would have married him instead of Darnay. Carton felt no will to live, and all thanks to Lucie, he had no reason to survive. At least that is how he felt.

Madame Defarge is thought to be the villain in this story because she puts Darnay in jail and tries to have him executed by the guillotine to pay for his families mistakes. Madame defarge however is not a classical villain. The characteristics of a classical villain say that they are disguised as the good guy, carry many likable qualities, and is enjoyed by the reader of the book. The qualities that Madame defarge carry, do not resemble those of a classical

However the villain should be disguised as the good guy of the story, and not given away by the appearance and demeanor of the character.

Described as the “Angel etc.” Lucie ultimately exhibits the quality of a villain in the disguise of good guy. When first meeting her, Dickens describes Lucie as a “slight pretty figure, a quantity of golden hair, a pair of blue eyes...with an inquiring look" (..chapter …).With her qualities of innocence, and enduring love, Lucie has the power to resurrect, and recall her father back to life. This convinces the reader that she is the good guy in the story, while in the end she is not.

Like a classical villain, she also has many likeable qualities that are common throughout the book. She shows the likeable quality of compassion when “With the tears streaming down her face, she put her two hands to her lips, and kissed them to him; then clasped them on her breast, as if she laid his ruined head there" (Dickens 51). This indirectly describes her actions as she expresses her emotions by kissing her hands and reaching them out to her father. Throughout the book, the love and kindness shown to her father and Carton manifests the quality of having likeable qualities, similar to a