All 4 Uses
antagonist
in
Man And Superman
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- 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.antagonist = someone who offers opposition or is hostile
- 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.
Definitions:
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(1)
(antagonist as in: the antagonist in the film) someone who offers opposition or is hostile
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Specialized Definitions of antagonist:
- literature or storytelling: the most important character who opposes the main character or protagonist
- physiology: a muscle that relaxes when another muscle contracts
- chemistry and biology: a substance that interferes with the effect of another substance