How could we not include the archetype of villains – Milton’s Satan – on this list of the greatest literary villains? A conflicted angel who rebels against God and the Son because he fears the loss of his power and status, Satan is a force to be reckoned with. He takes nearly half of God’s angels with him to Hell and starts his own kingdom. He hates God and will stop at nothing to take Him down. Satan uses his beguiling and seductive rhetoric to make Eve eat the apple in the Garden of Eden and looses Sin and Death into the world.
