All 4 Uses of
antagonist
in
Man And Superman
- No anxiety is caused on Don Juan's account by any minor antagonist: he easily eludes the police, temporal and spiritual; and when an indignant father seeks private redress with the sword, Don Juan kills him without an effort.†
Chpt Ded.
- Even the more abstract parts of the Don Juan play are dilapidated past use: for instance, Don Juan's supernatural antagonist hurled those who refuse to repent into lakes of burning brimstone, there to be tormented by devils with horns and tails.†
Chpt Ded.
- Of that antagonist, and of that conception of repentance, how much is left that could be used in a play by me dedicated to you?†
Chpt Ded. *
- And yet I have not the heart to disappoint you wholly of another glimpse of the Mozartian dissoluto punito and his antagonist the statue.†
Chpt Ded.
Definition:
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(antagonist as in: the antagonist in the film) someone who offers opposition or is hostile