Talk:Conflict (narrative)
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'Bold text'Bold text[[Media:Example.ogg]]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 Bold text"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".)
[edit] Merger
- Yes to merger. Feralfeline 23:47, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
Second the merger —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.39.102.33 (talk) 16:53, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
- Yes to merger. Actually, can't we just merge all the Man vs. -- articles into this one? They're all very stubby.... Mukk 08:25, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
- Oui, oui: That's a good idea ~user:orngjce223 how am I typing? 03:07, 20 October 2007 (UTC)