Antagonist

This article is about the literary term. For the pharmacological term, see Receptor antagonist. For other uses, see Antagonist (disambiguation).

King Claudius, the antagonist, is married to Queen Gertrude in William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

An antagonist is a character in a story who is presented as the main enemy or rival of the protagonist.[1]

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