Antagonist

little time to explain the setting). The book was never intended as an action packed narrative however, it was more cerebral and deliberate about how it let the story flow. There was a lot of buildup and tension the entire book while Eve1, the main antagonist, waited and planned before showing herself. Eve1 doesn’t make herself known until page 216 out of 299 pages of…

Zero Dark Thirty has an antagonist which the plot is centred around, there in only one antagonist and it is very obvious as to who it is. This allows her to form a plot line with a main climax occurring after a lengthy time of rising action. To find and kill Osama Bin Laden they had to track everything, this constant…

there’s no real opportunity to tell his story or to create him as a character. The same concern is created with the characters of Jean Heller and the attorney Fred Gray. The structure doesn’t allow for them to be developed. There are several antagonists, yet none of them stand out, as being the main adversary. Thus, because of the structure, the tension is mild. Tension should build and intensify as the story progresses. The main character should undergo some character growth too. In…

The antagonist’s goal is to cause harm to the leading character, but their scheme backfired. In Munro’s story, Edith is the antagonist, since it was her idea to craft romantic letters to Johanna pretending to be her own father to make Johanna feel miserable once she realizes Ken never wrote these letters and does not love her. To the teen’s surprise, the leading woman and her father…

directly involved in the rising action, conflict, falling action and resolution of the play. Here Puck manages to be involved in the action of the four lovers, Bottom and the actors, and the argument for the Indian boy. I'd say Puck fills the antagonist role most emphatically. He complicates Oberon's plans. Puck sets Bottom against his friends and the entire Titania love theme in play. He misleads the lovers, so they are fighting him when they think they are fighting one another. Puck is the…

Eliminate non-essential characters. Make the characters feel more distinctive from each other. Create a stronger protagonist that feels more unique. Make sure he drives the action. Give the protagonist stronger moral choices to make. Create a stronger antagonist. Create a stronger connection between the reveal of the true conspirator (Harding) and John (hero). Simplify and clarify the plotline to make it less challenging to follow. Don’t make things too easy like the relationship with Elaine…

who fight either for the greater good or for selfish reasons. When reading these stories however the reader at times will find two main characters who both have villain like traits. In The Song of Roland you have the protagonist, Roland and the antagonist Ganelon who both have villain like traits, however the reader finds himself placing Roland in the…

In the musical “Where’s Charley”, the main character, Charley, dresses as his aunt to shapparon his and his roommates dates. The show was set in the late 19th century and for the two young women to stay with two young men they had to have a shapparon. Charley’s aunt was suppose to arrive the morning of the lunch date, but she didn’t so, using the costume from his school performance, he dressed as a woman and pretended to be his aunt. The only reason the two young women, Amy and Kitty, met…

Paper 1 Describe the classical Hollywood narrative structure. Use examples from the film Shadow of a Doubt to illustrate the structure The Narrative structure of cinema has been ductile through history. Today we have a very wide spectrum of different plotlines and structures that directors and writers get to choose from; however, the classical Hollywood narrative structure stuck to one consistent narrative structure that follows a linear timeline through 3 basic steps: equilibrium, disruption,…

the characters. The antagonist will usually have negative character traits to build up dislike so that the reader will root for the protagonist. Character traits in a book often drive the plot and lead to the climax. Without defining and compelling character traits a book can become stagnant. Powerful character traits are essential to a book that will survive the test of time and remain relevant for years. The Book Of Lost Things written by John Connolly is driven by the antagonist, the Crooked…