Literature often aims to smile, laugh, cry and shock the audience. Many books make us smile and laugh, but the books that make us cry or shock us are the ones that are very well written. Here are a list of 7 most shocking deaths in Literatures and Movies.
1. Snape killed Dumbledore
This was by far the most shocking twist in the Harry Potter Series, when in Order of the Phoenix, Snape was working for the Order, in the Half-Blood Prince, we were in for a rude awakening when Snape’s “seemingly” true color was revealed. It was inevitable that Dumbledore would die by Snape’s hands; but what we were not ready was for the “whole truth” that was said after the Battle of Hogwarts. Snape was the character that we all loved to hate and our “feelings” was justified in book #6, but our 7 years of hatred evaporated into feelings of empathy, the most loved and bravest character of all the Harry Potter Series.
2. Macbeth kills King Duncan
In this Shakespeare play, Macbeth was one of the most respected and loved subject of King Duncan. Macbeth, influenced by the words of his wife, Lady Macbeth in their greed to become the king, murdered King Duncan, while he was asleep as a guest in Macbeth’s mansion. This set the chain of events that was sure to make the witches’ predictions true.
3. Jon Snow killed by the members of his Night Watch
Game of Thrones has seen and gotten through many deaths with brave heart, but this was the most unexpected one! In the season finale of GoT season 5, Jon Snow (played by Kit Harington) was betrayed and killed by his fellow members of the Night Watch. Many of the fans are still shocked over this death and many are still in the denial mode.
4. Assassination of Julius Caesar
The assassination of Julius Caesar was a conspiracy by many Roman senators, led by Gaius Cassius and MaarcusJunius Brutus, who stabbed Julius Caesar to death adjacent to Theatre of Pompey. This was considered to be one of the most brutal assassinations.
5. Voldemort killed Snape
Well, this isn’t something new, as Voldemort is known to kill people for his advantage. But him killing Snape was least expected as he completely trusted Snape, even while killing him he never doubted him in the least, all he wanted was to own the Elder Wand, which, he mistakenly thought belonged to Snape as he killed Dumbledore, not understanding that the Dumbledore’s death was planned between the two, but then Draco Malfoy disowned the wand from Dumbledore initially and Harry then disowned Draco, making Harry the owner of the wand. Snape died the most painful death, the only solace being he dies seeing Lily’s Eyes . . err., Harry’s eyes and finally able to say out loud to Harry that “You have your Mother’s eyes” ;(
Snape truly is the only Slytherin who died like a Gryffindor.
6. Camerlengo Patrick McKenna/ Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca killed Father SilvanoBentivoglio
Angels and Demons, the first book from the Robert Langdon series, a Dan Brown novel which was also made into a blockbuster movie starring Tom Hanks starts off with the murder of Father SilvanoBentivoglio and kidnapping of cardinals – The preferiti, which brings Harvard symbologist, Robert Langdon to solve the case. It is revealed in the end that Camerlengo Patrick McKenna (in the movie) and Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca (in novel) killed the pope. Camerlengo was practically raised by the Pope and it came across as a big shock to the readers and other huge twist was that Father SilvanoBentivoglio was the biological father of the Camerlengo, who was conceived by the “test-tube baby” method.
7. Kattappa killed Baahubali
This is definitely one of the most biggest shocker that the movie gave and it still has people perplexed. People are counting days till the sequel, Baahubali: The Conclusion is released in 2016, this is definitely one of the gripping tales of betrayal. For the time being, people are coming up with amazing and hilarious reasons for why Kattappa killed Baahubali
Have we missed any of the shocking murders, then do hit it off in the comments below.
By : Archa Dave
