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| Nov 20, 2020 at 0:26 | comment | added | MarielS | @hszmv this is very true and a good point which I considered mentioning when I wrote the answer, but I decided to stick to specifically addressing the difference between a person who is a villain and one who is only an antagonist, as in the situation the OP was asking about. "Antagonist" just generally refers to anything that gets in the protagonist's way, so it definitely can be something other than a person. | |
| Nov 19, 2020 at 19:28 | comment | added | hszmv | Did a -1 for this in that the antagonist need not be personified. Consider the film Castaway where there is no one human opposing Tom Hanks' character in the story. Rather, it is the forces of nature that oppose his character and he must over come them. Conversely, a villain can exist but not be an antagonist (I like to use Mulan as an example of this. While the villain Shan Yu does provide a conflict for Mulan, what is opposing her is Chinese Society and Gender Norms, not Shan Yu.) | |
| Nov 19, 2020 at 18:29 | vote | accept | Alexandrang | ||
| Nov 18, 2020 at 22:22 | history | edited | MarielS | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 18, 2020 at 21:56 | history | answered | MarielS | CC BY-SA 4.0 |