Thread:LostGod2000/@comment-27818776-20140622020654

I still think that the Queen from Sun, Moon, and Talia is actually more worse than the other antagonists in the book. Like I mentioned before, most of the antagonists are simply generic fairy tale villains who don't do anything heinously poignant throughout the books, nor do they strike me as heinous enough. As for the violent parts that I had mentioned before, these types of punishments are mostly reserved for the antagonists of the fairy tales, so I don't really hold that against the heroes (they can be sociopathic heroes at times). There were also some other people in power that I would say are rather trigger-happy, or insane, than outright evil. Don't get me wrong, there are some kings in the fairy tales that commit very heinous things. For example, the King from Sun, Moon, and Talia raped Talia in her sleep, and she gave birth to twins, and there was also the incident involving another king that would rape and murder women undiscriminately. However, the reason as to why those monarchs don't count is because some of them felt remorse for their actions later on, and they ultimately redeemed themselves at the end. The Queen from Sun, Moon, and Talia, however, never sought redemption, and she comes off as worse that the other villains of the Pentamerone, because, she was the only antagonist to ever stoop to attempting to turn someone else into a cannibal without their knowledge. She comes off to me as the most heinous character in the Pentamerone, and she's also the most hate-filled, the most realistic, and the most blood-thirsty character in this story.

If you have read the other stories in the fairy tales, I'd like to hear your thoughts on the Queen relating her to the other antagonists, because I pretty much think the case regarding her is closed. 