One of my favorite fiction works is And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, and it is a wonderful example of character-on-character violence, with on man, the Judge, essentially killing off ten other people single handedly for crimes they committed but could not be imprisoned for due to lack of evidence. This character-on-character violence shows the reader the severe brutality of this man, and comes off as evil and vile.
The other type of violence, "accidental" violence, is where the author is the one to kill the characters. It seems like an accident in the novel, but really is planned and has a deeper meaning. In Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman"Willy Loman dies in a tragic car accident after he realizes his family would benefit more from the life insurance money resulting from his death than having him alive. This is accidental, author-inflicted violence because it is more tragic and heartbreaking, instead of simply violence for violence's sake.
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