![]() ![]() ![]() Or maybe it’s that there are times I secretly think I’d like to say and do the wicked things our favorite bad girls say and do with ease. Is it that I have trouble believing anyone could possibly be as good as our favorite good girls are? Maybe. ![]() After all, who can possibly forget the hysteria created by Abigail Williams as she accused men and women of witchcraft, sending many to their deaths? There are times the good deeds of the most beloved female characters are overshadowed by the wickedness of their evil counterparts.īut why? I wonder. ![]() Sadly, for me at least, it often seems as though the good girls of literature are harder to remember than the bad, that their good deeds and charming personas are often surpassed by the plotting, scheming, and downright wicked behavior of literary rogues. There are bad and good female characters all throughout literary history, whether it be the evil villainesses we love to hate – those like Abigail Williams from The Crucible, or Lady Macbeth – or the beloved heroines that fill the pages of classic literature: Josephine March, Jean Louise Finch, Anne Shirley, and so on. This post was originally published at and is now at. ![]()
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