All 3 Uses of
antagonist
in
Atlas Shrugged
- A dim impulse, like the recoil of an antagonist, made her want to check on what strength was left to her.†
Chpt 3.1 *antagonist = someone who offers opposition or is hostile
- They have taught him that his body and his consciousness are two enemies engaged in deadly conflict, two antagonists of opposite natures, contradictory claims, incompatible needs, that to benefit one is to injure the other, that his soul belongs to a supernatural realm, but his body is an evil prison holding it in bondage to this earth-and that the good is to defeat his body, to undermine it by years of patient struggle, digging his way to that glorious jail-break which leads into the freedom of the grave.†
Chpt 3.7antagonists = people who offer opposition or are hostile
- No matter how loudly they posture in the roles of irreconcilable antagonists, their moral codes are alike, and so are their aims: in matter-the enslavement of man's body, in spirit-the destruction of his mind.†
Chpt 3.7
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) 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