The role of the Protagonist is only as interesting as his Antagonist is strong. The Antagonist must be as complex and valuable to the story as the Protagonist. The Antagonist must have great power or status. ... The purpose driving the Antagonist's actions must be strong. ... But the Antagonist does not have to be a person. ...
In opposition to the Protagonist, stands the Antagonist, the most significant character or force that opposes the protagonists in a narrative. ... Without the antagonist, we virtually have no plot. ... Unlike most stories, the role of protagonist and antagonist are flipped, so to speak. Usually the protagonist is good, and the antagonist is evil, but not in this case. ... I can apply them to my personal life, and use these stories as learning tools to overcome modern day antagonists. ...
Both stories end happily, in which the protagonist succeeds the antagonist. ... In both stories the antagonist tries to alter the protagonist's lifestyle by proclaiming that they are "behind times." These stories end happily because the protagonists do not allow the antagonists to prevail. In "Everyday Use," the antagonist is trying to accomplish a goal while in "Blue Winds Dancing," the protagonist is trying to accomplish a goal. ... The antagonist in "Everyday Use" has problems with achieving the goal because the protagonist does allow this to happen. ...
In the book The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, there is an antagonist. The antagonist is an significant part of the novel. ... Without an antagonist, the story would be short and meaningless. The antagonist of the story and causes a lot of commotion. ... In The Scarlet Letter, the antagonist is Roger Chillingworth. ...
There are three types of characters that help define the story, the protagonist, antagonist, and symbolic characters. ... The second type of character that defines the story is the antagonist presented in the form of Colonel Quaritch, "the character [that] doesn't seem to have any mode other than full-tilt destruction "(Kirkeby 5). ... He doesn't reveal himself as the antagonist until late in the plot when Jake turns against the humans. Quaritch is a flat character which makes him a good antagonist because it emphasizes his evil motives. ... They are the protagonist, antagonist,...
There is no true protagonist or antagonist in the play. ... Creon and Antigone are neither the protagonist or antagonist because in the play there is no true main character. The two characters are both trying to do what they think is right which results in no protagonist or antagonist. In the play there is no true person or thing that creates problems as the antagonist. ... This results in not having a true protagonist or antagonist. ...
Tolstoy also uses many antagonists to prove the point about greed and ungratefulness. The first and main antagonist can be Pakhom himself. ... Pakhom's extreme greed and ruthlessness makes him the perfect antagonist, but there is another antagonist who plays a huge role in Pakhom's life. ... Tolstoy perfectly uses antagonists to push the main theme in readers' minds. ...
Then I will contrast elements of the story such as the antagonist, and show the different aspects of the two characters. ... The first difference between them is the antagonist of the story. In "A Tell Tale Heart", the antagonist is the man, who is also the protagonist, making the conflict man versus himself. ... In "How to Build a Fire", the antagonist of the story is the environment. ... These men can be contrasted with each other because their antagonists, man versus man, and man versus environment are not similar....
Although the director of the movie and the actual author couldn't be more different, the director manages to depict the story accurately correctly, albeit leaving out a few parts.Although the film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a modern take on J.R.R Tolkien's Hobbit, it accurately displays the books setting, antagonists, dialogue, and plot. ... Although it may seem like the main character is his antagonist mainly because of his timidity, complacency, and uncertainty work against his inner strength and heroism.For both the movie and the book one could see that they both share...
That is when he turned from a partial protagonist into a full antagonist - Macbeth's characteristic downfall continues as he does everything possible to retain his kingship. (4,1,165) - Macbeth's death and misfortune leaves the reader feeling pity towards him because he was not a true antagonist - The death and mourning of his wife further increases our pity (5,5,22) - He had good qualities in him and the only things that created and strengthened his bad qualities were the true antagonists: The witches and his wife - Macbeth's downfall also leaves the reader in fear becaus...
In George Orwell's Animal Farm there are several main characters but the main protagonist is Napoleon and the main antagonists in the story are Snowball, the Humans, and the other animals of the farm. The first antagonist that arises in the story is the humans and in particular Mr. ... The other antagonist that emerges is Snowball, "A vivacious pig, very quick in speech and much more inventive then napoleon." ... Finally the animals of the farm are the other antagonists in the story. ... Just as all of the other antagonists the farm animals were not able to over throw Napoleon and keep ...
Does he have an antagonist and a helper? ... If Dimmesdale really is the protagonist of the story, who is his antagonist and who is his helper? Dimmesdale has to fight against two antagonists. ... Now Chillingworth's character starts to develop into the antagonist of Dimmesdale. ... The townspeople, who represent the Puritan society, play a decisive role as the second antagonist in the story. ...
In each story, one sister is a self-centered antagonist, and the mother is the judge between the two sisters. ... Dee is the self-centered antagonist in this story and is used to getting whatever she wants. ... Sister is the narrator of the story, and she tries to get the reader to side with her even though she is the instigator and the antagonist in this situation. ... Both stories show a conflict between two sisters when one returns home from a world experience, and in both stories, the older sister is the antagonist. ... In the end, the self-centered antagonists are the r...
In romance novels, there is always, at a minimum, one antagonist. In Wuthering Heights, a lot of people would consider the antagonist to be Heathcliff because of all of the bad things he does throughout the novel. In literature the antagonist either has a sliver of goodness deep down inside of him/her or a relatable reason that explains their behavior. ... Bronte made him an antagonist without a good bone in his body and that threw all of us off because in most romance novels the antagonist becomes good at the end. ...
There is no clear protagonist or antagonist when the movie ends. ... Pedro Almodovar varies from the normal Hollywood narrative style in that there is no clear protagonist or antagonist. The beginning starts out with David as the protagonist and Victor as the antagonist but it doesn't stay that way throughout the movie. ... By the end of the movie there is no clear protagonist or antagonist. ...
"Insomnia" also uses the Hitchcock notion that each thriller has three antagonists. Robin Williams plays the role of the main antagonist. ... Another antagonist in the film is the murdered girl's boyfriend. ... The third antagonist is Al Pacino's character. ...
Since Claudius killed Hamlet's father for power and Commodus killed his father to prevent a republic of Rome from surfacing, both of the antagonists can be seen as sources of corruption in the state. Therefore, by killing off the antagonist and restoring order, both protagonists are also taking revenge for the sake of the state. Maximus and Hamlet also faced the antagonist in a duel, where they were both at a disadvantage. ... Hamlet's and Maximus' revenge plans are made based on the betterment of the state, for justice, and end with a fight that kills both the hero and the ant...
For example, in almost any film or television show the antagonist is shown as African American or some other minority. In the movie "Daredevil" the majority of the cast was caucasion, and then there's the antagonist who's African America. ... Viewers leave the movies happy knowing the antagonist has been murdered. ... For example, in Bad Boys 2, why did they kill the antagonist instead of arresting him? ...
The reason why is because Shylock's role is to be the antagonist/joke of the story, but it seems to me that Shylock has too much personality/backstory to be left as just an antagonist/joke. ... Suddenly, if the story were to end there, Shylock does not become the antagonist anymore but a protagonist and a character to sympathise for through all his hardship and betrayal by law system. ...
Foust calls a "fantasy antagonist" in his article entitled: "Monstrous Images". ... The monster is of course the antagonist as is true in all imagination of fantasy. ... He lives up to the "fantasy antagonist" label that R.E. ...
Often overlooked, there is always your antagonist, the potent mastermind in the play who eventually comes to his death when his evil ways are discovered. In "Hamlet", the antagonist is Claudius, Hamlets uncle and King Hamlet's brother. ... In "Oedipus Rex", the antagonist is actually Oedipus himself. ...
Both have a main antagonist, who wishes to punish sinners. In The Scarlet Letter, this person is Roger Chillingworth, who wants to gain revenge on Dimmesdale, and in The Crucible, the antagonist is Abigail Williams, the girl who mainly accuses the people of being witches. ... While Hester is considered the protagonist in The Scarlet Letter and Abigail is considered the antagonist in The Crucible, both are startlingly similar in many ways. ...
In most people's opinion, "Lord of the Flies," by William Golding is one of the best novels of all time. As a matter of fact, many popular television shows and films are based off of the themes and setting of this extravagant book such as Lost and Cast Away. Lord of the Flies is about a group of Bri...
The story "Barn burning" seems just to be about a cruel father and a son who is in the grips of that cruelty. I think Faulkner discovers at least one important question in the story were he asks at what point should a person make a choice between what his parents and or family believes and his own v...
