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main char·ac·ter

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  1. main character

    A protagonist (from Ancient Greek πρωταγωνιστής (prōtagōnistḗs) 'one who plays the first part, chief actor') is the main character of a story. The protagonist makes key decisions that affect the plot, primarily influencing the story and propelling it forward, and is often the character who faces the most significant obstacles. If a story contains a subplot, or is a narrative made up of several stories, then each subplot may have its own protagonist.The protagonist is the character whose fate is most closely followed by the reader or audience, and who is opposed by the antagonist. The antagonist provides obstacles and complications and creates conflicts that test the protagonist, revealing the strengths and weaknesses of the protagonist's character, and having the protagonist develop as a result.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of main character in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of main character in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of main character in a Sentence

  1. Mitchell Trimble:

    Sometimes you just have to start being the main character

  2. Mitchell Trimble:

    Sometimes you just have to start being the main character.

  3. Alice Wu:

    I take a character who in a million years would never think she'd be the main character in a movie... but here I make her front and center. I think that's her emotional journey, as she goes from being like an afterthought in the school to being the main character -- like, really owning it in her life, i think that's probably true for a lot of us... we might think about ourselves a lot and we're self-absorbed, but we don't always see ourselves as the main characters in our life.

  4. Arigon Starr:

    To paraphrase from Michael's work -- Native people have been relegated to the sidekick, shaman, overly sexualized or super tracker characters, we are rarely the main character or the hero.

  5. Urmila Seshagiri:

    To see an Indian woman in a feature film as the main character was astonishing at that time.


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