What is the angtagonist?

Question

what is the antagonist in a story?is it a person or does it have to be?

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Answer 1

A character who goes against the theme of the story.

Answer 2

A antagonist is someone who has a "chip on their shoulder" and is the type to always pick arguements.

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For other senses of this word, see antagonist (disambiguation).

An antagonist is a character or group of characters, or, sometimes an institution of a story who represents the opposition against which the heroes and/or protagonists must contend. In the classic style of story wherein the action consists of a hero fighting a villain, the two can be regarded as protagonist and antagonist, respectively. However, authors have often created more complex situations. In some instances, the story is told from the villain's point of view; in such a story, the hero is regarded as the chief antagonist of the story. An example of this is the Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoons.

More often, stories simply do not have characters that are readily identifiable as most heroic or villainous. Instead, the antagonist becomes that character, group, or sometimes force which provides the chief obstruction to the protagonist or "main character" of the story. Note that the antagonist is not necessarily human; often, the forces of nature or psychological elements provide this element of opposition.

The protagonist-antagonist relationship is also sometimes ambiguous. For instance, in the story of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, the antagonist may be regarded as the whale "Moby Dick" of the title, against which the story's leading character Captain Ahab strives. Yet Captain Ahab is not actually the protagonist of the story[citation needed], as it is told from the point of view of the narrator Ishmael. Indeed, it is also valid to look at Captain Ahab as the antagonist, with his fanaticism the force with which protagonist Ishmael must cope.

Answer 3

"Bad guy" is the correct general answer. In order to really figure out who the antagonist is you must first identify the protagonist. The protagonist isn't just "the good guy" but the main character who is a different person at the end of the story than they were when you first met them at the beginning. Whoever is the greatest "adversary" of the protagonist is your antagonist. Now it doesn't necessarily have to be one person. Maybe it is a "corrupt government" or "the Nazi's" but an antagonist can never be something like "gravity" or "loud music".

Answer 4

An antagonist is a character or group of characters, who represent the opposition against the heroes. No it doesn't have to be a person, In the story of Moby Dick the antagonist was the whale.

Answer 5

The antagonist is anything that stops the protagonist from acheiving his goal. It does not necessarily have to be a person. For example, in a love story the antagonist can be anything that stops the two main characters from being together.

Answer 6

yea it's basically the bad guy opposite to a protagonist, which is a main character in a story. So the antagonist would be opposite to the main character(protagonist).

Answer 7

an antagonist is the bad guy, which is the opposite of the protagonist, which is the good guy

Answer 8

It is the bad guy, but it doesn't have to be a person. It is whatever is working against the protagonist or hero. It can be anything - even something abstract like the alter ego of the main character who might be schizo and his/her other selves are screwing things up he/she has to overcome.

Answer 9

Lester's right. It is the bad guy, but it doesn't have to be a person. It is the central force in the book that is working against the protagonist or hero.

Answer 10

It is a person because it's like the bad guy, where as the protagonist is the main character or good guy

Answer 11

antagonist are the opposite of the main character or they r the villains