What is the nature of the protagonist?

Answer 1

From the Greek, if you break down the word, protagonist, it means the one who brings the action forward. Antagonist is the one who holds it back. Get the picture?

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Answer 2

In general? A protagonist is the main character, generally the hero of a story.

From wikipedia (see source below):
The protagonist or main character is the central figure of a story.

The protagonist (Classical Greek πρωταγωνιστὴς) is also characterized by his/her ability to change or evolve. Although a novel may center around the actions of another character, as in Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener", it is the dynamic character that typically allows the novel to progress in a manner that is conducive to the thesis of the work and earns the respect or attention of the audience. In some stories, there can be more than one protagonist; this 'ensemble' cast is popular in television stories.

The protagonist is, it should be pointed out, not always the hero of the story. Many authors have chosen to unfold a story from the point of view of a character who, while not central to the action of the story, is in a position to comment upon it. However, it is most common for the story to be "about" the protagonist; even if the protagonist's actions are not heroic, they are nonetheless usually vital to the progress of the story. Neither should the protagonist be confused with the narrator; they may be the same, but even a first-person narrator need not be the protagonist. As they may simply be recalling the event while not living through it as the audience is.

The protagonist is often faced with a "foil"; that is, a character known as the antagonist who most represents or creates obstacles that the protagonist must overcome. As with protagonists, there may be more than one antagonist in a story. (Note that the term antagonist in this context is much more recent than the term protagonist, and rests on the same misconception as the use of protagonist to mean proponent. See below.)

Sometimes, a work will initially highlight a particular character, as though they were the protagonist, and then unexpectedly dispose of that character as a dramatic device. Such a character is called a false protagonist.

When the work contains subplots, these may have a different protagonist, which may differ from the main protagonist of the main plot. In some novels, the book's protagonist may be impossible to pick out, because the plots do not permit clear identification of one as the main plot, as in Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle, depicting a variety of characters imprisoned in and living about a gulag camp.

Answer 3

The protagonist is characterized by his/her ability to change or evolve.

The protagonist is often faced with a "foil"; that is, a character known as the antagonist who most represents or creates obstacles that the protagonist must overcome.

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Answer 4

The protagonist of a story is generally the main character who is in some form of conflict. The conflict can be with a specific character, the environment, the world around him, or even himself. A protagonist must persevere to overcome the conflict, but past that he could have just about any traits.

Answer 5

This can be taken one of two ways: A, a person who is the main character or hero of a story, and carries the storyline, or B, a person who keeps things moving, in regards to a job or attitude. Depends on which subject we're talking about here.

Answer 6

He's the character in the movie being played by a famous rap artist.

Answer 7

He is usually the main character, the hero, usually has own morals, aka " the good guy"