ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -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. In traditional narratives, the antagonist is synonymous with “the bad guy.”

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Synonyms of antagonist. : one that contends with or opposes another : adversary, opponent.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -antagonist, in literature, the principal opponent or foil of the main character, who is referred to as the protagonist, in a drama or narrative. The word is from the Greek antagnistḗs, “opponent or rival.”