ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -What Is an Antagonist? 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-2: -Antagonist–The character or force that opposes the main character in a narrative.

Detailed explanation-3: -Conflict is a struggle between two opposing forces, ideas or beliefs, which form the basis of the plot. Traditionally, these forces have been referred to as the protagonist and the antagonist. The protagonist is the main character in the story.

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.