| Wiktionary:Requests for verification Nov 4th 2012, 15:46 hero and protagonist: tongue twist | ← Older revision | Revision as of 15:46, 4 November 2012 | | Line 2,008: | Line 2,008: | | | : The most common use of "protagonist" in my experience is the "main character" meaning, not the "promoter" one.--[[User:Prosfilaes|Prosfilaes]] ([[User talk:Prosfilaes|talk]]) 12:28, 4 November 2012 (UTC) | | : The most common use of "protagonist" in my experience is the "main character" meaning, not the "promoter" one.--[[User:Prosfilaes|Prosfilaes]] ([[User talk:Prosfilaes|talk]]) 12:28, 4 November 2012 (UTC) | | | ::@RTG, sorry to be a bit of an arse, but this is a massive page, so any off-topic material, I'm very keen to remove it. Nothing personal. [[User:Mglovesfun|Mglovesfun]] ([[User talk:Mglovesfun|talk]]) 12:30, 4 November 2012 (UTC) | | ::@RTG, sorry to be a bit of an arse, but this is a massive page, so any off-topic material, I'm very keen to remove it. Nothing personal. [[User:Mglovesfun|Mglovesfun]] ([[User talk:Mglovesfun|talk]]) 12:30, 4 November 2012 (UTC) | | | + | | | | + | The ones where it implies, the words hero or protagonist ''define'' '''a main character''', specifically without any other prerequisite quality than being characterised ''at all''. I suggest such sense is contextual, expectant of a situation rather than descriptive of a subject and therefore requisite of explanation as such, in definition as such. Can you verify that a main character is always a hero simply by being main, as opposed to being merely described as one, in the implication that fiction best provides a hero for a main characters adventures? It's a bit tongue twistery to explain but it's not very complicated or long. If a fictional work about Satan sacrificing babies describes him as the hero of the story without any heroic aspect to his adventure, are we left requiring context for defintion? I say, yes of course. [[User:RTG|RTG]] ([[User talk:RTG|talk]]) 15:45, 4 November 2012 (UTC) | | | | | | | | == [[necklace]] == | | == [[necklace]] == | |  |
