Antagonist

When looking at an antagonist it’s often easy to simply brush them off as ‘evil’ and move on with the movie or show. One will often get so caught up with the rush of the protagonist that they simply toss the antagonist to the side, more obsessed with the defeat of the character than the character itself. This is the fate of nearly all villains, no matter how well written they are. So it’s no wonder that this was the fate of James Moriarty, one of the main antagonists of BBC’s Sherlock. Jim Moriarty

All villains are antagonists but not all antagonists are villains, It has been established in classic literature that the purpose of a villain sis to create a triumphant ending for the hero. In Jules Vern 's, Around the world in Eight Days, the antagonist possesses much more than simply being the bad guy in pursuance of the protagonist to impede their cliché happy ending. Detective Fix, as tenacious and stubborn as he is, offers much more than an antagonist who is fated to meet his doom in the end

In any play, book or story there is always a character or two that are looked down on and seen as "the bad guy." Despite the fact that these characters are the antagonists of the story, they often have a significant role that allows the plot to advance. In Romeo and Juliet and Anne Frank, Tybalt and the Nazi party are the main antagonists in each play. Even though they were presented and portrayed in distinct scenarios and conditions, they share several qualities that pull them closer together and

The central theme of the story is the age-old conflict of life and death. On a more personal level with First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, the round character and protagonist of "The Things They Carried", it is a conflict of love, his antagonist and of war. The author, Tim O'Brien, is writing about an experience of a tour in the Vietnam conflict. This short story deals with inner conflicts of some individual soldiers and how they chose to deal with the realities of the Vietnam conflict,

Rear Window is odd in how it is filmed. Emphasising the idea of voyeurism and watching others. You see, this is the first scene instead of seeing the main character or even side characters, you see the building of the many apartments and the courtyard and then you meet Jeff. Jeff you can see is a broken man, he lays down sweating, a sleep on a chair. But you only see Jeff a glance like he is not important instead the film focusses on the people in the apartments nearby in the rest of the film he

protagonist and antagonist. The setting takes hold of our interest and we may get a very good picture in our head of the time and place that the events are occurring. There are some stories that we get more out of than others, but it all depends on how much time one spends analyzing and thinking about the stories. In The Yellow Wallpaper and To Build a Fire, there are many things that are important to the development of the story and the plot. We see the setting being described, then the antagonists are creating

exciting character and you can't wait for what he's going to do next. And that's only touching the tip of his character traits. Most of the time in stories, books, or movies, there's an antagonist. An antagonist is essentially the opposite of the protagonist, the bad guy. It's kind of hard to say who is the antagonist in this story but if I had to pick, I would probably just say the dinosaurs. The reason I say this is because they try to kill Alan, and they try to kill little kids and many other people

Just as it is mandatory to have a hero, a fairy tale without a villain will create an ineffective plot. The negligence of the villain’s role/importance demonstrates our society’s ethics. The judgemental views of society, creates an impression that good will always emerge as the victors. This is caused by the fact that individuals within society has a different criteria of deciding what is “good” and what is “evil”. As a result their minds are structured through pure bias. The so called “heroes” or

discrimination, poverty, and was withdrawn. In both stories Walker uses the setting to develop the overall problems in the story such as taking things for granted and being discriminated against. She uses characterization to differ between protagonists and antagonists and how they change during the story. As well as syntax and diction to show how the overall mood throughout the stories shift. Alice Walker involves setting, characterization, diction and syntax to create a unique voice in her short stories by incorporating

The first, and most important antagonist in Angela’s Ashes is Malachy McCourt. Frank McCourt described his father, Malachy, as “the Holy Trinity with three people in him, the one in the morning with the paper, the one at night with the stories and the prayers, and then the one who does the bad thing and comes home with the smell of whiskey” (210). While Malachy was an important and influential antagonist in the story, he was not always the best role model for his children. Mr. McCourt was said to