When people write or read books that have evil characters, do you hate them? Or do you understand them? Or maybe something else altogether. I like to think that I understand my characters and why they do what they do. Sometimes they have reasons that most may not understand, sometimes they are just pure evil. But I like to think that my characters are different and fascinating and I could not hate them.
When I read a book about a murderer or thief or some other kind of evil, I like to read trying to understand the character and not always hating them. Because once you hate a character, you want them gone from the book, but that does not always happen. So I like to come from a place of understanding even if I disagree with what they do or reasoning.
What are your thoughts? Hatred? Understanding? Or something else?
