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Protagonist   /proʊtˈægənəst/   Listen
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Protagonist  n.  One who takes the leading part in a drama; hence, one who takes lead in some great scene, enterprise, conflict, or the like. "Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great of modern poetry."






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"Protagonist" Quotes from Famous Books



... it was, that phrase, as food for thought, was distinctly worth hearing. We left the river three days afterwards and I never returned to Sambir; but whatever happened to the protagonist of my Willems nobody can deny that I have recorded for him a less ...
— An Outcast of the Islands • Joseph Conrad

... one in American life who epitomized more finely Roosevelt's philosophy that in the public arena one must to the uttermost spend and be spent. It was a magnificent and enduring trail that Dr. Shaw blazed. Everywhere her endeavors had the impersonal and unselfish touch that marks the great protagonist of new ideals. She was a gallant and stirring figure in the history of this country and leaves the government of the United ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V • Ida Husted Harper

... to define this "love" which is the protagonist, so to speak, in the world's emotional drama, it is still harder to define its opposite, its antagonist. I could name this by the name of "hate," the ordinary antithesis of love, but if I did so it would have to be ...
— The Complex Vision • John Cowper Powys

... hypotheses regarding Arthurian origins have been dubbed the 'Continental' and the 'Insular' theories. The first has as its leading protagonist Professor Wendelin Foerster of Bonn, who believes that the immigrant Britons brought the Arthur legend with them to Brittany and that the Normans of Normandy received it from their descendants and gave it wider territorial scope. The second school, ...
— Legends & Romances of Brittany • Lewis Spence

... challenge of her glance, P. Sybarite's heart quaked, his soul curdled, his stomach for picaresque adventure failed him entirely: anatomically, in short, he was hopelessly disqualified for his chosen role of favourite of Kismet, protagonist of this Day of Days. Withal, there was no use offering resistance to the demands of this masterful woman; she was patently one to be humoured against a more ...
— The Day of Days - An Extravaganza • Louis Joseph Vance


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