Villainy and Felony

Hamlet by Shakespeare gives rise to discussion on Hamlet’s attitude to women, fulfillment of the readers’ expectation of justice, connection of Hamlet’s death with socio-moral values, impact of the pirate politics of the Elizabethan period on Hamlet, and Hamlet’s revenge maintaining morality. But there is an unexplored area of unearthing the nature of the villainies by Claudius and Gertrude to understand the Shakespearean paradigm of villainy and applying the paradigm to locate the villainies of the modern world. Thus, this study aims at exploring how, from the villainies of Claudius and Gertrude in Hamlet, Shakespeare constructs his paradigm of villainy and how, by applying the paradigm, villainies in modernity and modern politics can be located. To conduct this study, the approaches of moral criticism and New Humanism were utilized. The results show that ingratitude, vulgarity, chaos, amoral ambitions and their amoral means, and deceptions, as held by Claudius and Gertrude, construct the Shakespearean paradigm of villainy. By applying this paradigm, villainies have been identified in modernity and modern politics, especially that of the USA. The findings of the research may contribute to enlightening the readers by unmasking the intricate doings of evil both in Hamlet and the modern world.

این پژوهش به شکل مروری بر تأثیر ساختارهای شهری و طراحی آن‌ها به عنوان وظیفه‌ی سازمان‌های شهری بر پیشگیری، کنترل و کاهش جرم و جنایت می‌پردازد. عمده‌ی نظریه‌ها در این پژوهش بر کارهای آلیس کولمن، اسکار نیومن، پل فن‌سومرن و دانیله رینالد استوار است. اقدامات کاهش جرم در دو کشور انگلستان و هلند بررسی شده است و یک نظریه امریکایی که مخالف با این رویکرد است (نظریه‌ی پنجره‌ی شکسته) نیز بررسی شده‌اند.

While much of the scholarship on superhero narratives has focused on the heroes themselves, Batman’s Villains and Villainesses: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Arkham’s Souls takes into view the depiction of the villains and their lives, arguing that they often function as proxies for larger societal and philosophical themes. Approaching Gotham’s villains from a number of disciplinary fields, the essays in this collection highlights how the villains’ multifaceted backgrounds, experiences, motivations, and behaviors allow for in-depth character analysis across varying levels of social life. Through investigating their cultural and scholarly relevance across the humanities and social sciences, the volume encourages both thoughtful reflection on the relationship between individuals and their social contexts and the use of villains (inside and outside of Gotham) as subjects of pedagogical and scholarly inquiry.


Lexington Books
Pages: 352 • Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-66693-083-2 • Hardback • September 2023
978-1-66693-084-9 • eBook • September 2023
Subjects: Social Science / Popular Culture, Comics & Graphic Novels / General, Comics & Graphic Novels / Supervillains


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This syllabus is designed for an Intermediate College Composition course. I centered the course around a themes of monsters and monstrosity. The readings examine historical and contemporary depictions of monsters and monstrosity including vampires, zombies, werewolves, witches, serial killers, and movie psychos/slasher villains.

This syllabus is designed for an Intermediate College Composition course. I centered the course around a themes of monsters and monstrosity. The readings examine historical and contemporary depictions of monsters and monstrosity including vampires, zombies, werewolves, witches, serial killers, and movie psychos/slasher villains.