- Evil intersperses cruelty with kindness.
- Evil assumes other people are as fake as It is.
- Evil likes to toy with other people’s boundaries.
- Evil takes a victim stance.
- Evil would rather kill the person doing the questioning than take a realistic look at itself.
- Evil does it for kicks.
- At it’s heart, Evil is parasitic.
- Evil is smooth-talking and impulsive.
- Evil, it would seem, reduces living things to commodities, especially those foolish enough to lick its knee.
- Evil ruins childhood and refuses kids the tools to grow up.
- Evil is mindless suffering and a blind compulsion to act out a painful past.
Koren Zailckas, who has written a novel about a
smooth-talking, evil woman,
gives us this list of
Evil's characteristics as seen in characters from 11 novels.