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    that the conspirators are the antagonists while Mark Antony is the protagonist. Others may say it was only Cassius who was the antagonist. Many readers believe that the name of the play is completely wrong and William Shakespeare messed up. There are numerous amounts of evidence for each concept. As it does for many, my idea of who was who in the play varied as I continued to read on. Opinions may differ, but I believe the protagonist is Brutus while the antagonist is Mark Antony and the name holds

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    antisocially. To test for this, a two object-oriented goal scenario is used involving an experiment of opening a box to get a toy. In this experiment, infants observed the “Protagonist” as a plush animal hand puppet that was struggling to open the lid of a clear plastic box that contained a brightly coloured rattle. The Protagonist received help in opening the box from the “Opener”, represented by a prosocial puppet, and was interchangeably prevented from opening the box by the “Closer”, represented

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    Dexter Green is the protagonist in the story Winter Dreams, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The stories main focus is Dexter, portraying his love life and all his success. Dexter has many struggles in his life starting with the stories enemy, Judy Jones. Judy is not a pleasant character because of her actions and her ways in the story. Dexter creates his own problems and conflict in the story, that could’ve easily been prevented. Dexter is the story's protagonist because he is the story's main

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    Number 6 The protagonist in this play is Julius Caesar. He is the Protagonist for many reasons. One is that the main plot if the play is to kill Caesar for being a bad ruler against Rome. The consipators were making plans to kill Caesar. There are many warnings in the story that Caesar is going to die, but he ingores all of them because the consipators tell him not to.If he wasn’t the Protagonist then there would be no need to have him in the play for most of them time. Even after his death Caesar

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    In the beginning of Raymond Carver’s, “Cathedral” the protagonist, who was also the narrator, was not sympathetic towards the blind man. The main character had many preconceived notions about blind people and did not consider life inside their shoes. When they first met, the protagonist felt disgust and lack of empathy towards Robert, the blind man, but he restrained from showing his emotions. It is also very noticeable that the main character was continually jealous of the attention and admiration

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    I was the type of kid who would ask Santa for books instead of dolls, specifically books with a female protagonist. Growing up I was never really interested in romance type books where a girl was saved by a man. I instead found pleasure in reading mystery and action books where the female protagonist would save the day. The books that I read caused me to want to be like the female protagonists that I read about. I tried to be brave like the woman I read about by running for fifth grade president

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    movie Ace Ventura Pet Detective, he called his pets after telling his landlord he had no animals. In Home Alone, Kevin McAllister is a character, he is known for when he slaps aftershave on his cheeks, and his “Aaaahhh!” reaction. 2. Example of Protagonist Character: Katniss from the movie Hunger Games, she has conflict when she must enter the games and fight to the death. Ferris in the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off when he skips school because it is so boring and the things he has to do to not

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    behind the genre that I believe would create a class where students could explore and question the world and the lives people live. Books often times reveal something about society and the time, in which it was written, YA fiction is no exception. Protagonists in YA novels are still growing up creating a point of view that allows the injustices of their world shine through. For instance, in the world of The Giver deals with a dehumanized and immoral community that pushes people categories. Jonas, a

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    Waterhole, Fiona Bell’s debut novel which is a coming-of-age story. It is an intense, atmospheric and gripping mystery with a supernatural element. The main protagonist is 16-year-old Sunshine (Sunny) Maguire, home from boarding school for the long summer holidays for the first time since her mother Lily was killed in a car crash. She is feeling so alone and the only family she has is her step-father Kevin and that relationship isn’t good as she blames him for her mother’s death. The author explores

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    Imagine living a life with no knowledge of color, memories, death, or love. This is the community imagined by Lois Lowry in her book The Giver. The protagonist, Jonas and The Giver are the only two people who possess feelings and knowledge that the rest of the community has been robbed of. We learn that feelings and knowledge have the power to change everything. Knowledge has the power to change what anyone likes or dislikes. For example, “‘I liked the feeling of love,’ said Jonas” (84). Jonas

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