Serious villains
Abstract
Unsurprisingly, Dickens’ increasingly sober view of life in his later works forced him to create villains who were no longer mere stereotypes, or black figures from popular melodrama. Although the black-and-white moral judge- ments remain, the view of life is harsher, for all its restraint, when murderers may be seemingly ordinary people.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs
Artificial Intelligence in Games
Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
Publication details
- Pages
- 100–104
- Publication date
- 9 January 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter