Writing Meme Day 18

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18. Favourite antagonist and why!

It has to be Michael Giddings from Transgressions because he’s so absolutely horrible, and yet he fools so many people for a lot of the time.

Thing is, that some people. mostly the ignorant masses, thought the Witchfinders were doing a service to the community. Hence they were paid for results – 20 shilllings per convicted witch, I believe (without checking) so it was bloody lucrative. For whatever reasons Matthew Hopkins, the self-proclaimed Witchfinder General, got into it in the first place, you can be assured that he stayed for the money. He convicted and was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of women in the East Anglian region.  So when Jonathan encounters the Witchfinders, at the Assizes in Chelmsford, he is impressed at the “Good Works” they are doing, and this feeling is shored up by the magnetic and silver tongued Michael Giddings, who is not only beautiful, but can see into Jon’s soul as easier as into a clear pool of water.

When you first meet Michael, you, like Jonathan, are fooled into thinking that he believes he’s doing Good Works, and he does everything to convince Jonathan of this – showing him how the women have every opportunity to clear their names, and how they are given a fair trial, but it’s only slowly that Jonathan learns how wrong he’s been—and his nature, which has already taken such a huge blow after David’s deception—is nearly destroyed when he finds out what is really happening with these poor women.