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    Title: Jane Eyre Author: Charlotte Bronte Main Characters (Protagonist/Antagonist), Title, & Traits: Jane Eyre (Protagonist): main character, lost, alone, devastated Rochester (Protagonist): master of Thornfield, loves Jane, secretive, caring St. John (Protagonist): missionary loves Jane, cold, reserved, controlling Mrs. Reed (Antagonist): Jane’s aunt, cruel, resent Mr. Brocklehurst (Antagonist): principal, cruel, hypocritical Setting: England in the 19th century. Gateshead, Lowood Institute

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    protagonist and an antagonist , round and static characters . Round characters never change . In the short story “ the tell tale heart “ by Edgar

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    earlier, he is a man of honor and integrity. Mr. Fogg is also considered an eccentric and enigmatic person with a calm, unruffled demeanor. His rationality, generosity, and self-control impressed some characters throughout the book. Antagonist: The main antagonist is Detective Fix from Scotland Yard who suspects Mr. Fogg of

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    even space aliens. Each villain has his or her own particular style, usually greed. Another big reason for there evil acts is because of revenge, revenge can turn innocent people in to cold blooded killers. The term used to represent villains is antagonist, or someone who opposes the protagonist or hero of the story. Movie villains are not just plainly the main enemy in a movie as in Nightmare on Elm Street series or on the Friday the 13th series, but sometimes it is just a little enemy, sometimes

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    It’s difficult to imagine a world without men, but even more so a world of literature without men. The theme and topic of men’s treatment of women, both in daily life and in literature, has been addressed in more than a few books. But often the treatment on men in literature as the source of a problem is overlooked, or in some cases just understood as ‘boys being boys’. Adichie uses this common cliche of the treatment of men to her advantage in The Thing Around Your Neck, a book primarily about the

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    All horror movies have antagonists; however, the type of antagonist plays an important role in the quality of the movie. The main types of antagonists are serial killers, governments (or lack thereof), and ghosts. Movies with governments as the antagonist usually have a figurehead that represents it such as in The Purge where one guy named “The Polite Leader” is trying to kill someone during the purge. This character represents a society in which they all believe that allowing all crime for one day

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    Inciting Action Hamlet

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    reflects the story of a classical tragic hero where it begins in some fortune and ends in suffering and death. Hamlet mainly seeks to find justice for his father’s death. B. Antagonist: • The main antagonist for the play is Claudius. Claudius killed Hamlet’s father to get a seat on the throne. Claudius is the antagonist because he is the primary opposition to the protagonist and a target or the main obstacle for the protagonist. C. Main characters: Hamlet and Claudius are the obvious main

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    The antagonists of a story are usually not the ones critically acclaimed. Due to our human inclination it’s fairly relevant that, as readers, more of an emotional attachment is built with the protagonists. However, in spite of that, villains still deserve our attention. From taking a close look at a few villains and the methods in which they manipulate, parallels in strategy are prevalent. A few examples of antagonists that particularly stand out are: Iago from the tragedy Othello written by William

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    “No Country for an old man” is a film that takes place in a western setting in the 1980’s. Llewelyn Moss is the protagonist who stumbles across a drug deal gone wrong when hunting in a secluded desert area. Once he notices a man off in the distance who seems to be shot, he walks over to him to find him dead sitting with a suitcase holding two million dollars inside. Moss decides to keep the money, but this leads him to having a psychotic hitman after him. This film continuously builds tension through

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    Bernard Malamud’s “The First Seven Years” is a short story written about social class, family tension, and love. The story involves a shoemaker, Feld, who is searching for an honorable man to marry his daughter, Miriam. He attempts to find a man among scholars, persuading a student named Max to go on a date with his daughter, but by the end of the story, he finds that those men are not always as decent as they appear through a first impression. The man best fit for his daughter turns out to be his

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