Essays on Protagonist

Things Fall Apart commences with Okonkwo occupying a deeply esteemed/respected position in the clan of Umuofia. Okonkwo’s fellow villagers find themselves regarding him with respect due to the fact that his status was acquired solely through personal effort. As a result of being raised by…

Name: Tara Tran “There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish” (Michelle Obama). According to Michelle Obama, woman can do everything even though they are in the hardest situations. The protagonist, Mary Beth Latham in the novel Every Last One written by…

The 1993 movie Groundhog Day narrates the life of Phil Connors. The protagonist, portrayed by Bill Murray, is an egotistical weather-forecaster who is given the duty of covering Groundhog Day in a small town. What intrigued The Times about this cinema was not its extravaganza…

In our lives we are all protagonists and can dictate our story. With every action we can change the end result. In William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is the protagonist because he shows growth as a person, always plays a role in the…

Since the time of the Brothers Grimm, fairy tales have evolved tremendously and have not only been enjoyed, but also utilized and modified. Fairy tales were used in classrooms to teach young children to follow the desirable and favored behavior emitted by the protagonists, along…

Introduction In the play “Zoot Suits,” by Luis Valdez, tells the struggles of Mexican-Americans through the mysterious case of “sleepy lagoon.” on the story we have our modern tragic hero, Henry, and a mythical, altered ego of him, El Pachuco along with many other characters….

The work disembowels everything that surrounds the individual: his own identity, his family environment, and his professional career. Arthur Miller, the author, chooses a man on the verge of retirement to build his representation of failure. The protagonist is one of many men: married, with…

Lily is the main character, protagonist, and narrator of her story. She is a fourteen year old white teenager growing up in Sylvan, South Carolina. When Lily first appears, she is beaten down, and punished by her father. At age four, Lily killed her mother…

Introduction The Zoot Suit movie not only brought us closer to the lives of the Pachucos, but also provided us with to a clear vision of the events that led to the riots in June of 1943, in the city of Los Angeles. In that…

Eccentric is the New Black Although many people have been brainwashed into thinking that it is better to mold yourself into society’s version of acceptable than to be unique, Tim Burton proves time and time again that it is more important to be original and…

In Aristophanes’ play Lysistrata, Lysistrata the main protagonist calls the women of Greece to a meeting to discuss the plan to end the Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata plans to ask the women to refuse to have sex with their husbands until a treaty of peace has…

In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Arnold Spirit, Jr. was fortunate to have a number of mentors and positive role models that supported him along his journey to maturity, including some of his friends, family members, and friends of family members. Some…

In what way does the writing style in The Yellow Wallpaper explain the protagonist’s insanity? The Yellow Wallpaper is written in first person narration in the form of a diary. Although the narration and the writing point of view is fixed, there are still changes…

The protagonist of this piece is narrating his own story. According to Gerard Genette’s theory, he would be classified as an autodiegetic narrator. Therefore, the reader is limited to the protagonist’s perception of his surroundings. Furthermore, this narrative situation allows for the reader to get…

What Is Reality? In “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” the story takes place during the Civil War era and the protagonist is named Peyton Farquhar; he is a man who lives in the south and is confederate supporter who owns an immense quantity of…