Compare And Contrast The Antagonist And Antagonist In The Tell Tale Heart

The antagonist is the opposing power in some stories. His/her role might be real or fictional; the antagonist can be a living person, an animal, or something less touchable, like an emotion (fear), a natural disaster (flood), or a material object. Protagonists and antagonists are two traditional rival characters of a story, who work in the same environment but seek different solutions for problems in a story. They work both together and against each other in the setting of the story with the goal of prevailing upon one other. Each story develops a different plot, theme, and setting, but the antagonist always creates a conflict and provides an opposing force to the protagonist in order to deny the resolution he is seeking, which makes his character more interesting and challenging than protagonist.
By assigning the roles played by different characters, especially the protagonist and

An important note to make is that there is no good or bad character attribution necessary to either the protagonist or the antagonist respectively, because their roles are at the writer’s mercy. In the short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Allan Poe, the old man with the vulture-like eye is a good man being killed for no reason, yet assigned a negative role for opposing narrator, and is thus the antagonist. The narrator, on the other hand holds the role of a “bad guy,” but is the protagonist of the story. After reaching the climax, the ending is depending the power displayed by the protagonist for achieving the resolution, or resistance and conflict offered by the antagonist in denying the resolution--or with no winner as they both settle to live with the problem, which hence defeats both the protagonist and