Wallace – the Evil Genius There was no doubt that Wallace was a gifted child, nevertheless, he used all his gifts for wrong ends. Like Satan in Paradise Lost by John Milton, he believed: “To do ought good never will be our task, But ever to do ill our sole delight,” His appearance, his fake scholarship, his intentions, or his fondness for tools — all pointed to one thing that he was a negative personality; he took delight in destruction and not in construction. Fourteen years old Wallace was not a loveable child. He was somewhat shorter than he should have been and a good deal stouter. Wallace’s face was round, owlish, and dirty, with big, dark eyes. His hair was black, which hardly ever got cut, and arranged on his head. Wallace lived in a rich family, and was sent to a good school to accept better education. He had been outfitted with attractive and fairly expensive clothes, but he changed them from one suit to another only when his parents came to call on him and ordered him to get out of what he had on.
