False protagonist

“You’re innocent until proven guilty” (dramafever.com); in the case of the Korean drama “I Hear Your Voice” you are “guilty until proven innocent” (dramafever.com). The drama “I Hear Your Voice” is a 2013 Korean drama directed by Jo So Won. It is a romantic comedy, where the plot revolves around the judiciary system and the main character whose name is Park Soo Ha. This character is able to see what people are thinking with just glancing at their eyes. The drama is based on the fictional story…

Types The Protagonist: The protagonist is the person at the center of the story. They’re “the one at the center of the character arc,” (Myers, 73). Often, these are characters who have some important obstacle they must overcome to complete the story. Surprisingly, the protagonist does not have to be the main or narrating…

public. Trump’s presidency has been full of lies. Whether you are a supporter or not, it is clear that he does not care about the truth in the slightest. In fact, “a whopping 70% of Trump’s statements that PolitiFact checked during the campaign were false, while only 4% were completely true, and only 11% mostly true.” (Konnikova 1). Among the hundreds he…

“Play It as It Lays” by Joan Didion examines how a facade greatly influences one’s success in Hollywood during the 1970s. The protagonist of the story, Maria Wyeth, is an upcoming model/actress from Silver Wells, Nevada who tries her luck in the entertainment business due to pressure from her parents by moving to New York, and then Los Angeles where she meets many well established individuals within this “artificial society” such as BZ, a homosexual film producer and Carter, a film director as…

something greater that they believe in. These losses however, are either made with false ideals or with true noble convictions. Sacrifices are generally made to achieve something more worthy, but sometimes others can have misconceptions and undertake losses for the worse. In the plays Oedipus the King, written by Sophocles, and Death of a Salesman, written by Arthur Miller, it is displayed that the two protagonists make sacrifices throughout their stories without high moral judgement, leading to…

from God or, other than Beelzebub, from any of the other characters in the text. This can leave many readers with a startling question; is Satan the protagonist in Paradise Lost? Does Milton have a specific motive for giving Satan a voice, and what does this say about the religious connotations in the text? A standard definition of the term “protagonist” is “the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.” It,…

1)The False Price Jennifer A. Nielsen 2A)The main protagonist in The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen is Sage. Sage is an orphaned boy who lived in Mrs. Turbeldy’s Orphanage for Disadvantaged Boys from when he was very small. Sage is actually later revealed to be Prince Jaron of Carthya. Sage is a sarcastic, stubborn, and rude teenage boy, who is actually a prince. 2B)The main antagonist is Bevin Connor. He is the man who bought Sage for his special plan to make one of his 3 “orphans” take…

foster attributes of romanticism, which life disrupts and exchanges with cynical realism. Joyce’s protagonist clearly exemplifies the romanticized characteristics common of immature adolescents in the beginning of the story. The boy’s fantasy of love and his longing for adventure are perverted and distorted by illusions. Events in the story lead to a pivotal awakening to reality and an end to the false and foolish imaginations. The innocent outlook of youth is replaced with a more realistic life…

Most Shakespearean comedies end with marriages and the triumph of a protagonist, as opposed to death and misfortune like a tragedy. By this definition, The Merchant of Venice is a comedy; yet, many skeptics question this claim due to their analysis of the trial. They consider Shylock’s loss in the trial to be the downfall of a poor protagonist, suggesting that Merchant is a tragedy. However, these skeptics blame it on the Christian defendants in court. Shakespeare portrays Shylock as a…

her growth as an individual, as she now sees her true potential and walks her own path. The narratives of V for Vendetta and The Road both prove that individual will only face reality when they are forced trough by the use of violence that the protagonists experience. This proves that reality is an obstacle that an individual cannot run from, but can only take head on as running from it only prolongs the coming of the…