The Lamppost from Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

The narrator in Their Eyes Were Watching God, a novel by Zora Neale Hurston, is a lamppost. More specificly, the lamp atop the post. On page 145 it is stated, "Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers." and on page 44, you find out that the mayor "unwrapped it and had it wiped off carefully and put it up in a showcase for a week for everybody to see." And it didn't sit on any old post. Later on that page, "He sent men out to the swamp to cut the finest and the straighest cypress post they could find, and kept on sending back to hunt another one until they found one that pleased him." The lighting was celebrated with a barbecue and a chorus of altos.

Truthfully, the lamp doesn't even need to be half-omniscent. It was brought to the town so that the Mayor wouldn't scuffle over stumps and roots in the dark. Therefore, logically, he would put it close or next to his house. Janie was on the back porch when she was telling her story, in flashback form, where a lamp would easily be able to overhear everything said. Lamps are not strangers in being compared to gods. One example is in Narnia. It came into being as Narnia did, sung by Aslan. It marked the wardrobe-portal in the second book. And a huge number of works, including the Chronicles of Narnia, compare a light source to the sun, which has been personified by the Egyptians into Ra, the most powerful of the old gods.
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Richards from "The Story of an Hour"

In "The Story of an Hour," by Kate Chopin, Mrs. Mallard, a woman with "heart troubles," is told by her husband's friend, Richards, that there had been an accident, and that Mr. Mallard's name had been at the top of the list of those who died. She feels liberated by this information, and either becomes so joyful in this liberation–or so surprised when her husband walks in the door–that she dies. Clearly, since Richards states that "Brently Mallard's name" is  "leading the list of 'killed,'" he over-specifies this information, indicating that it may easily have been fabricated. Being a close friend, he would know that Mrs. Mallard has these heart difficulties, and therefore, he obviously plotted to indirectly kill Mrs. Mallard by (a) shocking her with her husband's death or (b) shocking her with the return of her supposedly dead husband. There was nothing to lose. If she was not adequately alarmed by his death, his return would prove equally shocking. If she did not die, Richards would not be implicated in any crime whatsoever save misinformation. Additionally, when Mr. Mallard walks in the door, Richards instinctively hides the view of dead Mrs. Mallard from him; something he would not do if he was not guilty. Though it is not known why Richards may have wished to murder Mrs. Mallard, speculations have been made around his relationship with Mr. Mallard; perhaps he wished to kill Mrs. Mallard and marry Mr. Mallard instead.
You can read the short story at http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/hour/.

Mary Warren from "The Crucible"

Mary Warren from the Crucible was secretly planning to kill John and Elizabeth Proctor, controlling Abigail, and setting all three of them up to be killed. When she reluctantly agrees to go with him to court, she is planning to betray him and set him up for disaster. She even goes as far to create a deposition in which she stating that Abigail is a liar, all to make it appear that John Proctor is evil when she eventually betrays him. In the play, she comes with him to the court and pretends to agree with him until her puppet, Abigail, pretends to be bewitched, which could only have happened if it was planned between the two of them. When she abandons John Proctor's side and joins Abigail, she make him look like he forced her to agree with him, which would definitely be considered evil, and was attempting to lie about Abigail to get her killed and bring down the court. The timing of Mary's abandonment of John Proctor is too convenient to not have been a dastardly plan from the beginning. Combined with the fact that she set up Elizabeth Proctor too, it is too convenient to be a coincidence. When she gives the poppet to Elizabeth, she is setting up Elizabeth to be accused of being a witch. She tells Abigail, her puppet, to accuse Elizabeth since she set up the poppet to have a needle in it which would be clear proof that Elizabeth is a witch. When she knits the poppet and gives it to Elizabeth, the only way Abigail could know to stab herself and accuse Elizabeth would be too have Mary Warren controlling her and telling her what to do the entire time. When Abigail runs off at the end of the play, it is not because she fears what the people of the village will do, she fears Mary Warren's revenge. So although Mary seems like a meek and quiet child, she is a secret psychopath plotting and controlling everything from the shadows.