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nouncentral figure of narrative

nounleader in a movement or cause

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The trailer shows the protagonist digging what appears to be a grave, knifing a bad guy and conducting an interrogation with a hatchet.

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In the most popular films of 2019, protagonists were more diverse than ever, and there were more women were behind the camera.

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In the 2013 movie Her, the protagonist develops a romantic relationship with a virtual assistant, and is soon disillusioned when he realizes that he was projecting human feelings and motivations onto “her” alien mind.

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Wild boars, traffic-snarling flocks of sheep that cross the road from one field to another, mice and snakes are the regular protagonists in any chit-chat about life in Sant’Ippolito.

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The Jedi, the main protagonists in Star Wars, rely on the light, of course.

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He draws to himself rather more than his share of interest and sympathy, to the detriment of the protagonist.

THE FATAL DOWRYPHILIP MASSINGER

Its protagonist had come home after completing his education in Vienna; and there was the family gathered to greet him.

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It is in fact the first division of literature in which the heroine assumes the position of a protagonist.

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He had lost the protagonist against whom, for a while, he had stood almost alone, and soon we find him complaining of neglect.

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And so with Pepys and his adored protagonist: adored not blindly, but with trenchant insight and enduring, human toleration.