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Old 06-19-2012, 02:16 AM   #80 (permalink)
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Gideon Emerson
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Antagonist and Protagonist? Well, that wasn't always a clearly defined line. Growing up, Selina had been told by her parents and aunts and uncles that bad people were not always bad. There was a ray of hope in everyone- no one was born evil, they just had wickedness thrust upon them. And no one could really argue with that fact because, well, then that would mean that evil was innate and that was an awful thought.

So the redhead had a hard time really dealing with the question at hand, life wasn't black and white. Why were they being asked to subject characters, even fictional ones, to such hard stereotypes? But the last thing she wanted to deal with was a philosophical debate at the moment. Especially with people who didn't want to listen to the tangent. "Ma'am I suppose my favorite protagonist is Aeneas from Vergil's Aeneid. It's an epic poem written during the height of Augustus' reign of the Roman Empire. It's about the fall of Troy and the survivors founding the eventual Rome. The antagonist is Turnus who believes that he has been slighted by Aeneas coming to Latium and inadvertently stealing his bride. Although, one could argue the real antagonist is Juno who causes all of the trouble for Aeneas and his men." That was shortening it a lot... It was twelve books long.
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