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Definition
the principal character in a work of fictionor more rarely:
an important supporter of someone or something
- the famous protagonist, Harry Potter
- an unlikely and unlikable protagonist
- Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.Norman Mailer
- A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and...Clifford Irving
- There is a psychological school called "Behaviourists," of whom the protagonist is Professor John B. Watson...Russell, Bertrand -- The Analysis of Mind
- Ironically, the greatest triumph for both, protagonists was the time they were forced to cooperate during the goblin insurgence.Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl
- Pattyn, the protagonist in this book, comes to love rural Nevada, where the spirit of the Old West lives on in its people.Ellen Hopkins -- Burned
- "I understand the protagonist is not doing very well," the professor said, grimly.Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen
- If I had used Terminator Two, where the protagonist is a gun, I wouldn't have got those results.Malcolm Gladwell -- Blink
- He was always one of the protagonists, but always, as in almost everything he did, a secret protagonist.Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera
- She could have had no such experience at all, and there was neither reason for the scene nor any possible protagonist: he knew that she knew that.William Faulkner -- Light in August
- Downtrodden Americans gravitated strongly toward the Horatio Alger protagonist, the lowly bred Everyman who rises from anonymity and hopelessness.Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit
- And you look like a protagonist.Rainbow Rowell -- Eleanor & Park
- The three chief protagonists in the Washington drama of 1850 had been colleagues in Congress as far back as 1813.John F. Kennedy -- Profiles in Courage
- The protagonist was a Jew, and he was presented in a positive light.Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief
- Helen, once a peripheral figure in these discussions, became the epicenter, instigator, and protagonist.James McBride -- The Color of Water
- After Aisha introduced the protagonist, Safiya provided the setting and central conflict, and Nademah took it from there.Dave Eggers -- Zeitoun
- "Check this out," he said, and showed her a sequence from an action movie where, instead of Bruce Willis, the protagonist now seemed to be Francis Garaventa.Dave Eggers -- The Circle
- Besides, I thought, male novelists write about female protagonists all the time, so I will write about men.Leslie Marmon Silko -- Ceremony
- It says Hiro Protagonist Last of the Freelance Hackers Greatest swordfighter in the world Stringer, Central Intelligence Corporation.Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash