Antagonist

How would you describe the author’s typical heroes or heroines? What makes them alike? What (internal and external) characteristics do they tend to share? I believe that the author’s typical heroes or heroines are mainly filled with some type of hope. They all seem to think that people are usually either good or bad and they feel as though there is good in most people. I think the characteristics that they tend to share is their aversion to certain types of people. I think they try to accept…

In many instances, the protagonist is built on good morals and always makes the right and mature decision, while the antagonist is created by greed and driven by his immense power and yearning for more. At a point in the book, the protagonist gains incredible power and defeats his enemy or enemies. This concept has spread throughout all genres of writing, whether it’s fantasy…

expect he'll come looking for me" (Foreman 296). Frank Miller is High Noon's antagonist, and he wants to kill Will Kane for sending him to prison. "The Cossack was the cat; he was the mouse" (Connell). The refers to General Zaroff as a cat, who is chasing the mouse, in this case, Rainsford; General Zaroff is hunting down Rainsford and wants to kill him. The protagonists in both works of fiction are being chased by the antagonist with the intention of killing him. Literature often can be linked…

Unfortunately not all movies are made with a second opinion like Maleficent to justify or give an explanation to the evil counterpart of the hero. The majority of movies are left with the antagonists being unreasonably evil and the audience rooting for the good guys. By popular demand nine out of ten movies the good guy always comes out on top. Society has instilled this idea in its movies. The good guy must always win because he does everything right and deserves it. His correct thoughts and…

Shylock’s misunderstanding of Daniel’s motives speaks to his character: he’s a troubled person who has no compassion for people, so much that he honors Portia’s refusal to have good judgment for Antonio in the moment. By revealing that he himself is an antagonist, Shylock appears to be self-destructive. Since the protagonists prevail over him in the end of the trial, Merchant embodies a typical comedic…

While the dinosaurs of the story are considered to be the main antagonists, in the original novel John Hammond comes as a very close secondary antagonist. Which becomes interesting when one then looks at the movie adaptation, where John Hammond is not only doubtful to be considered an antagonist, but an all around nice character with a likable personality. In the book, Hammond is portrayed as an egotistical, short-tempered, greedy…

From High School Musical to 16 Wishes the antagonist always seemed to want to ruin the protagonist’s life when from the looks of it the villain had it all. Most non- animated Disney movies, the protagonist somehow ends up doing something that upsets the antagonist while also taking away some of the attention the villain of the movie loves. This leads the bad guy/girl to do all the bad things in the movie. The audience knows that they are the villains but what the audience didn’t know was that…

multiple points of view to show irony among other things of different events. There are many characters that can be considered the protagonists of the novel as well as the antagonists of novel depending on the situation, point of view, and way the reader interprets it. Some instances include Marie as the protagonist and Lulu as the antagonist, or the other way around. The reader can also look at Lipsha as the protagonist. The same…

The overall length of the short film affects its structure, characterisation, plot and especially story. ‘The longer a short film lasts, the more the audience wants it to be a story. They want it to mean something.’ (Cowgill (2005 :9)). This means that shorter films, up to 5 minutes, are usually a comedy sketch with a punch line, such as in Knob, or a horror with a twist, like Selfie From Hell. The reveal or surprising ending seems to be common in the under 5 minute short, as the film has little…

Set in a time when the end of the world became reality Joanna Russ’ When It Changed and Colin M. Drysdale’s Last Flight Out each described a society where an outside force changed the way the society was established. Although the characters in both stories were presented with challenges such as being unwanted in a one gender based society, being threatened by an unforeseen group or being scarified for the greater good both Mankind from planet Earth, the women from planet Whileaway and the pilot…