Hey! Hey! Hey! What's up everybody? This is your lovely, Literary man, Zaphkiel speaking, and I've got the first Literary word for the week! However, before we get to that, let's talk about something that relates to our word. So, how many of you have heard of The Joker? You know, that crazy villain from Batman that will put a smile on your face whether you like it or not. He really got on Batman's nerves, didn't he? I mean, always escaping from prison and causing terror in Gotham City. You'd think after so many villains escaped from jail somebody would have enough sense to say: "Hey, maybe we should stop walking so close the cells. That way, the prisoner won't trick us, knock us out, or do any other harmful things that will allow them to get our keys." SORRY, NOT GONNA HAPPEN! You know why? It's because if those guards did wise up and learn how to defend themselves, from The Joker's slyness, Poison Ivy's sex appeal, or the Riddler's tricks, then Batman would have no one to fight, which leads to no conflict/problems. Of course, not all books need to have a bad guy, in fact, there are a lot of famous books that don't have one, like Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. So can you guess what our literary term is? TIME'S UP!
Antagonist (an-TAG-uh-nist): a character in a story or poem who deceives, frustrates, or works against the main character, or protagonist, in some way. The antagonist doesn’t necessarily have to be a person. It could be death, the devil, an illness, or any challenge that prevents the main character from living “happily ever after." In fact, the antagonist could be a character of virtue in a literary work where the protagonist represents evil. An antagonist in the story of Genesis is the serpent. He convinces Eve to disobey God, setting off a chain of events that leads to Adam and Eve being banished from paradise. In the play Othello by William Shakespeare, the antagonist is Iago. Throughout the play, he instigates conflicts and sows distrust among the main characters, Othello and Desdemona, two lovers who have risked their livelihood in order to elope. Iago is determined to break up their marriage due to his suspicions that Othello has taken certain liberties with his wife. See Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia. Victoria Henderson, Student, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
6 comments:
Great first post, Zaph! Good work.
Good work Zaph. Good work indeed. Keep it up :).
Sweet, man.
Yeah, that was me above. :D
It's okay, Jordan. It didn't look like someone was trying to tarnish your good name, anyway. :P
I just got mixed up in the whole Username, Nickname or Anonymous thing. It's an easy mistake to make! :P
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