Talk:Conflict (narrative)

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AFAIK, the concept of "Antagonist" arose in the American playwriting tradition, and has nothing to do with the ancient Greek tradition. The prefix "pro" in "protagonist" is illusive -- it isn't the "pro" as in "pro/anti", but actually "proto" (first) as in "prot-", "deuter-", "tri-", with the protagonist, deuteragonist and tritagonist being the first, second and third fighter -- i.e., the leading role, the second leading role and the third. In other words, this wasn't directly tied to the concept of conflict, as is suggested by the opposition between "protagonist" and "antagonist". (Indeed, as far as I have been able to tell from the text, Aristotle doesn't even mention the concept of conflict in his "Poetics".)