Top Ten Biggest Jerks In Literature

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted over at The Broke and the Bookish.  Each week, we get a theme to list our top tens. 


This week's Top Ten is: Top Ten Biggest Jerks In Literature

Here I can only think of the following, in no particular order:

1) Sher Khan from The Jungle Book stories by Rudyard Kipling
2) Long John Silver from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
3) Milo Minderbinder from Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
4) Fred from The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
5) Bill Sikes from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
6) Alec d'Urberville from Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
7) Mr Hyde from Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
8) Iago from Othello by William Shakespeare
9) O'Brien from Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
10) Ellsworth Toohey from The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand