ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -An antagonist is a character or force that opposes the protagonist. In literature, they are often villainous characters that create conflict in the story by driving the protagonist to take action. Antagonists can also be forces of nature (such as natural disasters) and opposing ideologies (such as fascism).

Detailed explanation-2: -A character who opposes the hero is the antagonist, from a Greek verb that means literally “to struggle against".

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: -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-5: -You can call this character a provocateur if you prefer, but he does the antagonizing. Don’t get me wrong, I can totally understand why so many keep trying to pitch the script where the protagonist is the antagonist. It sounds so tormented, pithy, edgy, and cool. It just doesn’t work logistically or cinematically.