History YMMV / GeorgeFredericHandel

* CompleteMonster: In the ''[[Literature/BookOfEsther Esther]]'' [[http://opera.stanford.edu/iu/libretti/esther2.htm oratorio]]: [[EvilChancellor Haman]] is the [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain anti-Semitic]] vizier to King Ahasuerus with false delusions of righteousness, who sends a decree out to [[FinalSolution kill all the Jews of Persia]] after Mordecai foiled an assassination attempt and refused to bow to him, having his soldiers murder any Jew they come across, [[WouldHurtAChild infants included]]. After Esther appeals to the king to repeal the decree and reveals the attempt on his life, Haman begs for mercy before being taken to hang, where he curses them all and [[NeverMyFault claims that he's the one being persecuted against]].

* CompleteMonster: In the ''[[Literature/BookOfEsther Esther]]'' [[http://opera.stanford.edu/iu/libretti/esther2.htm oratorio]]: [[EvilChancellor Haman]] is the [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain anti-Semitic]] vizier to King Ahasuerus with false delusions of righteousness, who sends a decree out to [[FinalSolution kill all the Jews of Persia]] after Mordecai foiled an assassination attempt and refused to bow to him, having his soldiers murder any Jew they come across, [[WouldHurtAChild infants included]]. After Esther appeals to the king to repeal the decree and reveals the attempt on his life, Haman begs for mercy before being taken to hang, where he curses them all and [[NeverMyFault claims that he's the one being persecuted against]].

* CompleteMonster: In the ''[[Literature/BookOfEsther Esther]]'' [[http://opera.stanford.edu/iu/libretti/esther2.htm oratorio]]: [[EvilChancellor Haman]] is the [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain anti-Semitic]] vizier to King Ahasuerus with false delusions of righteousness, who sends a decree out to [[FinalSolution kill all the Jews of Persia]] after Mordecai foiled an assassination attempt and refused to bow to him, having his soldiers murder any Jew they come across, [[WouldHurtAChild infants included]]. After Esther appeals to the king to repeal the decree and reveals the attempt on his life, Haman begs for mercy before being taken to hang, where he curses them all and [[NeverMyFault claims that he's the one being persecuted against]].
* HarsherInHindsight: ''Samson'' contains the famous aria 'Total eclipse', in which a blind man laments the loss of his sight. Händel himself went blind toward the end of his life, and performances of this aria were said to move him, and the audience, to tears.
* TearJerker: The ''Messiah'' moved him to tears. Apparently he actually had a kind of religious/supernatural experience after its first performance, when he looked again at the music and thought he saw the face of {{God}} staring back at him.

* CompleteMonster: In the ''[[Literature/BookOfEsther Esther]]'' [[http://opera.stanford.edu/iu/libretti/esther2.htm oratorio]]: [[EvilChancellor Haman]] is the [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain anti-Semitic]] vizier to King Ahasuerus with false delusions of righteousness, who sends an decree out to [[FinalSolution kill all the Jews of Persia]] after Mordecai foiled an assassination attempt and refused to bow to him, having his soldiers murder any Jew they come across, [[WouldHurtAChild infants included]]. After Esther appeals to the king to repeal the decree and reveals the attempt on his life, Haman begs for mercy before being taken to hang, where he curses them all and [[NeverMyFault claims that he's the one being persecuted against]].

* CompleteMonster: In the ''[[Literature/BookOfEsther Esther]]'' ([[http://opera.stanford.edu/iu/libretti/esther2.htm oratorio]]): [[EvilChancellor Haman]] is the [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain anti-Semitic]] vizier to King Ahasuerus with false delusions of righteousness, who sends an decree out to [[FinalSolution kill all the Jews of Persia]] after Mordecai foiled an assassination attempt and refused to bow to him, having his soldiers murder any Jew they come across, [[WouldHurtAChild infants included]]. After Esther appeals to the king to repeal the decree and reveals the attempt on his life, Haman begs for mercy before being taken to hang, where he curses them all and [[NeverMyFault claims that he's the one being persecuted against]].