Villains

Villains are interesting to us because we like to compare ourselves to them and think we are good. It's nice to see someone else fall, because it makes us not feel so bad when we do. To see someone as evil or worse than ourselves is a big confidence boost to ourselves. Having a villain also makes a book interesting because it gives it more of a thrilling and dangerous aspect. Villains help us realize that not everything is all shunshine and butterflies all the time and that there are bad people in the world. They make a book real to us, because we can relate it to our world because there are bad people in our world today. If there weren't any villains then there would be no drama and no action, and who wants to read a book without any of that? No one. And authors know that, so they write in villains.