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.

Detailed explanation-2: -Basic nature Conflict may be internal or external-that is, it may occur within a character’s mind or between a character and exterior forces, (or point(s) of view). Conflict is most visible between two or more characters, usually a protagonist and an antagonist/enemy/villain, but can occur in many different forms.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The antagonist is the opposing force in a story. It could be a human enemy, or it could be non-human, like an animal or something less tangible, like fear. The antagonist plays an important role in story development. If there is a conflict in a story or movie, it is because there is some sort of antagonist.

Detailed explanation-5: -man conflict. This conflict type (which pits two characters in direct opposition to each other) is one of the most common in literature because the vast majority of stories have a protagonist and an antagonist.