Story Book Villians. (Eragon spoilers)

I am pretty unimpressed with the characters passed off as evil in stories, as a whole. Most of them would be the good guy, if they were in the protagonists position.

Take the Chronicles of Narnia for instance.

All my nerdiness aside, Edmund was evil for liking the White Witch, and then stopped being evil when he met Aslan. Isn't that a bit odd? He's evil for not siding with someone he's never had the chance to meet. All he did was befriend the first person he met over some food, Lucy did the same thing!

The order of events goes like this-

1) Child enters Narnia
2) A stranger shows them kindness
3) The stranger earns the childs' loyalty
4) It is revealed that this person might wish to harm the child
5) The stranger forces the child to go home at once

Lucy would have been "evil" too, if she hadn't come through when she did. Think about it. Ed goes through, meets a guy who wins him over with some neat stories. He'd go back and talk about it, and I bet only Lucy would believe him. She'd try getting in and meet this nice old woman.

I've never seen Starwars before, but my English teacher talked about it a lot. Didn't Darth Vader turn evil because to be a Jedi he was expected to stop being in love with someone? Or something? Anyone with his hormone balance would have done something just as drastic.

In Eragon -the book, the movie is not fit to bear the same title. If it didn't you wouldn't know they were supposed to be the same thing.

Anyway.

In Eragon, Murtagh turns evil, thus disappointing thousands of fangirls who really need to look at the whole story and not become obsessed with single characters-

Anyway.

Murtagh turns "evil" and helps Galbatorix- after being captured, dragged into an abyss against his will, forced into the Kings fracking dungeons and discovering the dragon that completes his soul. I mean come on give the guy a break. Dragon hatchlings are pretty pathetic, and you know if Murtagh didn't agree to help His Royal Craziness he would have had to watch the adorable baby he had dreamed of all his life and loved with all his heart killed before his eyes, thus literally slashing apart his soul and sending him spiraling into suicide, or life long insanity. Which he would be imprisoned and tortured during.

And then he lets Eragon go later. Sort of. It's sort of only because Eragon was weakening his dragon. But he and Eragon were friends, and if he caught him then he could stop trying to murder him. And he had that whole speech about how they were trying to unite the country so that there would never be wars again. And he's trying to save the species of dragons.

If he hadn't been captured he'd still be a good guy. And he's doing pretty well under the circumstances. He's got morals. His actions are reasonable.

All in all? Not impressed with the people literature labels as "evil". That's a pretty strong word. Because if the options were presented bluntly, who wouldn't choose to be good?