My very talented friend Suzanne Willis presents her “bad” woman today, the White White of Narnia from C. S. Lewis. It’s hard to disagree when you consider her awesome wardrobe, appalling attitude and the fabtastic at of wheels:
Jadis, the White Witch of Narnia. An amped-up, much more malignant incarnation of the Snow Queen (another favourite, although she was unsatisfying absent, for the most part, in the original fairytale). Glamorous, power-hungry and carrying the glorious, snowy winter with her, Jadis is unrepentantly nasty. She turns countless Narnians to stone, charms Edmund to betray his own siblings and takes a most perverse pleasure in executing Aslan (and that’s just for starters). All in the name of retaining her power over Narnia but, at the same time, absolutely revelling in her evil deeds. There is never any hint that the White Witch is a reluctant baddie; nothing soft or kind or redemptive about her. All of which make her the perfect bad woman…