The principal character in a work of fiction

Usage examples of protagonist.

The basic conflict of the story, the mainspring that drives it onward, is an emotional conflict inside the mind of the protagonist.

Metaverse, and in the Metaverse, Hiro Protagonist is a warrior prince.

Even in the first moment of glimpsing the Rattler he had thought it blandly evil, a scene without any possible protagonist.

And yet, when some burly protagonist would thrust himself too rudely into the ring, and try to bear down opposition by sheer vehemence of declamation, from the corner where he sat ensconced in unregarded silence, HE WOULD SUDDENLY SLING OUT SOME SHARP, SWIFT PEBBLE OF THOUGHT, which he had been slowly rounding, and smite with an aim so keen and true as rarely failed to bring down the boastful Anakim!

The letters of John and Abigail Adams number in the thousands, and because they both wrote with such consistent candor and in such vivid detail, it is possible to know them--to go beneath the surface of their lives--to an extent not possible with other protagonists of the time.

It seems certain that what he wrote was only the beginning of a novel that would have been longer by several hundred pages, about Algeria from the arrival of the French to the Second World War, including the war itself, and the Resistance to the German Occupation as lived by the protagonists in a love affair.

But, in developing it, its protagonists have moved away from how biological brains and psychological minds might work and instead concentrated on solving problems embedded in the silicon of computer chips and in mathematical logic - an approach which may produce bigger and better machines, but has become entirely indifferent to their relationship with the biological systems they were once attempting to model.

Predictions of Parousia frequently feature children as central protagonists.

Tell them that it was the Baron Meliadus who dared swear an oath on the Runestaff and thus set into motion these events which will destroy completely one protagonist or the other.

Remove all technobabble and Godlike explanation, and focus, with complete exclusion of all else, on the experience of the protagonist.

In shojo manga, love stories are structured through the exaggeration and aestheticization of the protagonists who are the same sex as the readers.

That is why I prefer to use the word antagonist to describe the character who clashes against the protagonist.

The two conflicts also conflict with each other, placing the protagonist on the horns of an impossible dilemma.

Your protagonists will be you, to a large degree, together with some mixture of people you know.

All this adds up to a simple fact: Your protagonists will be you, to a large degree, together with some mixture of people you know.