The Antagonist is the driving force in the story that shapes the Protagonist, opposing her/him throughout the story. In order to have a protagonist you need to have something or someone opposing him so that ways he won’t become static. Many protagonist share similar qualities with their antagonist, traits that link them giving them a connection throughout the story. It is this connection that makes the hero become better than his opposing self. A great example of an antagonist shaping the protagonist is in Charles Dickenson’s “Great Expectations” between Estella and Pip. In the beginning of the story we are introduced to Estella as a little girl and even then we can see what kind person she is. While she may be beautiful, we see early on that she is cold and self-possessed. Their very first encounter involves her criticizing his appearance, playing on his insecurities. Despite her cruel words Pip falls hopelessly in love with her. It is this love that he feels for Estella that he begins to plan a way to deserver her. Dickens paints Estella as this cruel antagonist, however, he also gives the readers a reason to sympathize with her. While Estella is heartless she is only a byproduct of her circumstances. She lives in a house that is old and dirty with a woman …show more content…
While she is beautiful and valued Pip is unappreciated and looked down upon. Pip’s only hope is Joe who shows him kindness. Pip has a passive personality, afraid to show any kind of emotion because the people around him have told him that he is worthless and a burden. Instead of acting out, he dreams about a better life. Before he meets Estella Pip hopes to become Joe’s apprentice, however, after meeting Estella his dreams are destroyed. Estella shows him that there is no value in being an apprentice in the forge. Coupled with his low self-esteem and the harsh words of his family, Pip’s ambitions and desires are fueled by his self-loathing and
Luke because he has been thought a metaphors that surprised me and most readers also. Was it good or not it for you to find out? Protagonist is depended on antagonist because protagonist is a good person, hero, the best, etc. To be a good person, hero, or best there must be other who will be against protagonist. These characters are antagonist. Protagonist is most of the time noting without antagonist. Antagonist is noting with protagonist because they are against them so both are depended on each other. The police officer that caught Luke was on tough man. He must have been hard working to caught Luke.
The word protagonist comes from the Greek word protagistes, meaning “One who plays the lead role.” The protagonist is forced to adapt to various conditions, and overcome many obstacles. A separate character or an omniscient narrator usually tells the protagonist’s story, but the protagonist himself can also tell it. While there is normally only one protagonist, there can more than one antagonist. The antagonist is the character that opposes the protagonist, and is usually responsible for the obstacles in his way. One common literary technique that is often used to rapidly change an audience’s viewpoint on a story is the use of a false protagonist. A false protagonist appears to the reader as the main character (the protagonist), but is suddenly removed from the picture completely. This removal is often accomplished by killing the false protagonist.
In every protagonist, there is an antagonist, since, without it, there is no story. The readers may despise the villains terribly and may not want them to exist. However, everyone can concur that pronounced villains are what makes the stories interesting; they are what makes the stories come alive. "But," people may wonder, "what makes a villain considerable?" One example is Jafar from the Disney movie Aladdin, whose wicked behavior, intimidating appearance, and contradictory to the hero produces him as the epitome of a great villain.
somehow absorbed by Pip as Pip portrays a typical childlike quality in which he is easily influenced by those around him. Joe’s influence on Pip can come across as a positive outlook on Pip as well. Pip learns to respect others and their wishes as well as himself, but also not to retaliate and lower himself to someone else’s level if they provoked him to do so. “She says many hard things of you, yet you say nothing of hers to do. What do you think of her?
Pip’s attitude begins to change after he visits Miss Havisham’s for the first time. This of course is where Pip first meets Estella, his love interest throughout the remainder of the novel. Pip begins to no longer feel proud of where he comes from but instead shameful. Pip decides that he wants to become a gentleman.
Now, just because Pip is a gentleman, he realizes that his materialistic hope of being a gentleman does not make him happy. In this quote, Victorian era values become evident, as money, which is desired and thought to make happiness, changes Pip’s feeling from happy to dissatisfied. Now, the reader realizes that Dickens believes that money has nothing to do with being happy, but, what a society values. Finally, Pip realizes Estella’s adversity when she declares “suffering has been stronger than all other teaching[s]" (515). Through this quote, Pip finally realizes that, even though Estella was brought up with money, it does not help her any more than being raised without money.
In Great Expectations, Pip was one of lower class. Although he did not have the fortunes, Pip was happy. Once he was introduced to the rich Miss Havisham and her daughter Estella, he fell in love. Estella became the object of his affection, yet because she was considered high class, there wou...
Pip’s first and only love is Estella. Estella is very mean and nasty to Pip. Although he receives verbal abuse from Estella, he continues to like her and will not stop liking her, he sees the good inside of her and will not stop until the good comes out. In contrast to her treatment of Pip as a child when she had called him a common laboratory boy with coarse hands and thick boots, she tries to explain to him that emotion is something that she is incapable of feeling. The fact of that is evidence of his illusion, not her cruelty.
Estella is raised in a prosperous household and is judgmental of Pip because he is from the working class. She insults his appearance when she says, "But he is a common laboring boy. And look at his boots! (Dickens 45)" because he is not of the upper class. She also criticizes the way he speaks when he calls one of the playing cards Jacks instead of Knaves (Dickens 46). Dickens uses her negative comments about Pip’s appearance and use of slang to highlight the differences between the two classes. She also insults Pip with a comment calling him a “stupid, clumsy laboring boy (Dickens46)." Because of the differences between their classes, she instantly labels him as unintelligent because of the way she has been raised with uncommon people. Pip thinks about what Estella would think of his family and what Joe does to earn a living. Pip also contemplates how his sister and Joe eat dinner at the kitchen table and how
The protagonist in a horror film is usually one person or a group of people. The protagonist in Sinister 2 is a mother and two sons which is provides a good example of the group protagonist This being is the antagonist. The antagonist brings a great aspect to every horror movie especially because it can change forms. An example of it changing forms is in The Boy.
The relationship between Pip and Estella is very complex and ironic. It keeps the reader entertained, with the humor of sophisticated children. A major irony, of situation, occurs when Estella kisses Pip after insulting and degrading him. The reader becomes confused with Estella's actions and feels sympathy for Pip. The confusion causes conflict, which keeps the reader on the edge of their seat. On page 104 Estella says, "Come here! You may kiss me, if you like." This is something unexpected, which livens up the story.
Adopted by Miss Havisham as a baby, Estella rises to a high social standing. Raised to be protected from Miss Havisham’s mistakes in love, she is trained to repress notions of romantic love. By “[stealing] her heart away and [putting] ice in its place,” Miss Havisham thus prevents Estella from gaining the ability to achieve true happiness in life. The true meaning and feeling of love is unknown to Estella. Condescension and insensibility to others is sowed into her being early on, and she only can become more incapable of loving as she matures. When Pip is hired to become her playmate, she revels in the opportunity to exercise her prowess. Encouraged by Miss Havisham, Estella hones her ability to break hearts with Pip, but he is only the first of the many destined to befall that fate.
When he first learns about his new found wealth he starts wavering between being snobbish and feels guilty over being so. He lets the tailor grovel over him, but he tries to comfort Joe, though not whole-heartily as Biddy points out. Pip waivers like this throughout the second part of the novel. He is acting how he thinks he should, in accordance to the way Estella and Miss Havisham indirectly taught him, even though this is in contrast to his kind nature. When Joe comes to London for a visit is when this is most apparent. Pip hates Drummle and yet he thinks of how Drummle would look down on Joe, look down on Pip for being associated with him. But Pip also is embarrassed for Joe to see how lavishly he lives. He again is wavering between being what he thinks he should be, and his own conscious. The entirety of the novel is told from the perspective of an older Pip, who does not always look back on his actions kindly. When Joe comes to visit the narrator thinks back on his shame of Joe, now in hindsight only feeling shame for his actions towards Joe saying “God help
In the first stage of Great Expectations, Pip begins as a contented boy, happy with his own way of life, but soon becomes humiliated by the ones he loves, and starts to morph into someone who is very status-conscious. At the start, Pip looks up to Joe, and even says, “Joe and I (were) fellow-sufferers…” showing that Pip regarded Joe as an equal (Dickens 7). At this stage in Pip’s life, he has not yet realized what social class is, and so he is perfectly happy being with Joe. Joe and Pip are good friends at this point, and Pip really appreciates him as a person. This all changes after Pip’s first visit with Estella, especially when he says, “Her contempt for me was so strong that it became infectious, and I caught it,” showing that he is beginning to take into account other people’s thoughts about himself (62). Although Estella looks down upon Pip for being ‘common’, there is irony in his statement, because Estella comes from an even lower class than him. Throughout the whole novel, Pip tries to impress her, thinking that she is well above him, when she is actually the daughter of a convict. Finally, Pip shows betrayal to Joe when he says, “I was truly ...
First, Pip is ambitious to become a gentleman in order to be worthy of Estella 's love. Pip is a young boy and is being raised by his sister. When his sister, Mrs. Joe, forces him to go to a stranger’s house he does not ask questions. Pip 's first