1. Shannon Innis
THE SADIST

2. What is the Sadist?
 A sadist receives gratification by causing pain
to another.
 They enjoy being cruel.
 They are extremely violent and
psychologically brutal.
 The sadist does not feel remorse.

3. GREEK CULTURE

4. Persephone and Hades
 The sadist character in this story is
Hades.
 He kidnaps Persephone, daughter of
Demeter, because he falls in love
with her.
 He traps her in the Underworld with
him, and she is only allowed to visit
her mother a few months out of the
year.
 He does not care that Persephone is
miserable with him.
 Because of Hades’ cruelty and the
fact that he does not care about the
pain he inflicts on Persephone, is
considered the sadist of the story.

5. Ares: Greek god of war
 Ares is another god
found in various
mythological stories
who is a sadist
 He is extremely violent,
and he is very
destructive in battle
 Ares was dangerous
and had savage-like
qualities

6. ROMAN CULTURE

7. Nero
 Nero was a very famous
emperor who was known
for the persecution of
Christians
 He is classified as a
sadist because he loved
watching people suffer
 He showed no sympathy
whatsoever, and he was
genuinely evil

8. Gladiator
 The character
Commodus in the movie,
Gladiator, was a sadistic
character
 He killed his own father
and Maximus who was
supposed to be the next
emperor of Rome
 Commodus only cared
about power, and that is
why he killed so many
innocent people

9. MIDDLE EAST CULTURE

10. Aladdin
 The character, Jafar,
from the movie
Aladdin is also
considered a sadist
 He manipulated the
king in order to gain
power
 He did anything to
anyone just to become
more powerful

11. AMERICAN CULTURE

12. The Little Mermaid
 Ursula in The Little
Mermaid is a sadistic
character
 She tries to ruin Ariel’s
hopes of becoming
human
 Ursula becomes so
obsessed with killing
Ariel’s dreams that it is
the only thing that
matters

13. BRITISH CULTURE

14. Lord of the Flies
 The sadist in Lord of
the Flies is Jack
 He becomes so
possessed with killing
and power that he will
murder two boys just
to become chief
 He truly becomes a
savage

15. Sweeney Todd
 In the play/movie,
Sweeney Todd, Benjamin
Barker is the sadist
 He kills so many men for
no good reason
 His goal was to obtain his
daughter from the cruel
judge by murdering him
 He is a true sadist
because of his
enjoyment of his victims’
pain