![]() Making decisions is scary because we don’t know what the consequences will be. Do you see where I am going with this?īased on this definition, are you making key decisions about your life, merely coasting along or following others’ plans? Are you facing difficult obstacles or are you staying within the safe and known? Are you exposing your weakness and strengths or are you hiding them? Instead of playing the main lead, you may be playing one of the secondary characters, you could be playing the antagonist with self-sabotage behaviors, or you could even be playing the Chorus, which only comments on the story, but never participates. It is as a result of these trails, however, that the protagonist’s strengths and weakness will be revealed. ![]() It is also the character who faces the most daunting obstacles. The Protagonist of a story makes the key decisions, and consequently, experiences the results of those decisions. Our lives are a novel, so what is our position in our own lives? At this point everyone will jump up and declare that of course, they are the protagonist! However, let me point out a few counter arguments. However, now I thought about this order and ranking of various characters in a novel. The mystery of the word that had puzzled me had now been solved. There is also the Antagonist, who is the main nemesis of the Protagonist, but we’ll get to that later. The Deuteragonist is the second actor or the second most important actor in the narrative, Tritagonist is the third actor, Tetartagonist is the fourth actor, Pentagonist is the fifth actor, and so on. Protagonist means “one who plays the first part, chief actor”, and is the main character of the story. In case you ever wanted to know, it turns out the characters in a narrative have assigned names, originating from Ancient Greek. Hopefully, this search should not take longer than a few minutes, or so I told myself. Huh? I have never heard of this word, so I once again ventured into the rabbit hole that is the Internet, unsure of when I would be coming back. Reading about a new series I started watching, it is mentioned that one of the characters “is the tetartagonist” of the series. “You cannot go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ~ C.S.
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