Mr C?<p>&quot;He is the product of a democracy hypocritically preaching social equality and practicing a carelessly brutal snobbery. He is a sensitive, gifted man who has been humiliated into nihilism.&quot;<p>I didn&#x27;t read him as psychopath so much as someone nursing serious grudges about his perceived exclusion from the top rank of society. Enough that he&#x27;d delight in &quot;setting things right&quot; even Nazi style.<p>That was, for me, the most interesting character insight.