LITERATURE QUESTIONS
ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE
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the bad guy
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the character who saves the day
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the character who gets punished in the story
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the character or force that opposes the protagonist
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Detailed explanation-1: -The antagonist is the primary opponent of the protagonist, and the biggest obstacle standing between the main character and their goal. This term also derives from Greek: anti, meaning “against, ” and agonist, meaning actor. Like the protagonist, the antagonist can take many different forms.
Detailed explanation-2: -Antagonist–The character or force that opposes the main character in a narrative.
Detailed explanation-3: -In storytelling, the antagonist is the opposer or combatant working against the protagonist’s or leading characters’ goal (“antagonizing”) and creating the main conflict. The antagonist can be one character or a group of characters.
Detailed explanation-4: -An antagonist is a character working against the protagonist who, in most cases, the reader wants to see foiled. The antagonist creates the conflict and is generally seen as the ‘bad’ one but, like the protagonists, there are different types of antagonists.
Detailed explanation-5: -The antagonistic force is what creates conflict on the plot level and the scene level. If we can say “no conflict, no story, ” then we can just as accurately say “no antagonist, no conflict.” In some stories, and for some authors, strong antagonists and their formation of the plot conflict comes obviously and naturally.