What is a protagonist?

Protagonist is a term that refers to the leading character or the main character of a movie, story, drama, novel and any other fictional prose text. Protagonists are the main figure or the chief actor. They played the most important role as they are the central figure who comes into a fued or conflict with the antagonist, another major character who opposes the protagonist. The term protagonist comes in different explaination which depends on the source which may also denote variety of concepts.

A protagonist is the leading character or one of the following major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.