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Baddies in books: Long John Silver a pirate Ronald Reagan
The brutal Treasure Island villain has a realistic charm and charisma that could have made him an all too plausible politician
More Baddies in books - from Sauron to Humbert Humbert
The sea captain whose arrival at the inn opens Treasure Island is a man whose ferocity and lack of inhibition cows the whole village: a scarred and filthy alcoholic who drinks rum all evening with a naked cutlass on the table in front of him. Yet he is haunted by the fear of Blind Pew, who is one of the most economically described figures of fear in English fiction:
He was plainly blind, for he tapped before him with a stick and wore a great green shade over his eyes and nose; and he was hunched, as if with age and weakness, and wore a huge old tattered sea-cloak with a hood that made him appear positively deformed.
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