Done correctly, the terrible moment in which a villain sees himself as he truly is—his anagnorisis—can be one of the most powerful type-scenes in all of literature. The accumulated sins of weeks or years funnel to a single instant of dread recognition. With repentance unthinkable, the villain embraces his role, firmly and finally casting aside the tattered rags of pretended altruism…
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