An Idealistic Villain

Like Paul, I read through some of Ian McArthur's posts, who wrote about villains in Shakespeare.  I enjoyed his post on the story of his paper.  He mentioned that he'd thought he had a strong idea about soliloquies and villains, but after meeting with Dr. Burton, realized he needed to develop it further. 

That idea turned out to be that we like villains because they are idealists, which is definitely arguable and is a new spin on the idea of villains' attractiveness.  Ian saw a dilemma--why do people like villains who are supposed to be bad--and decided to answer it through Shakespeare's works.