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A false protagonist is presented at the start of the fictional work as the main character, but then is eradicated, often by killing them (usually for shock value or as a plot twist) or changed in terms of their role in the story (i.e. making them a lesser character, a character who leaves the story, or revealing them to actually be the antagonist).
A false protagonist is a literary technique in which a character is presented at the start of a story as the main character, but is later revealed not to be. Pages in category "False protagonists" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
Conchita (previously Conchita Wurst), stage persona of Austrian recording artist Thomas Neuwirth. C.W. Blubberhouse, whose letters in UK national newspapers were exposed as a hoax by the Sunday Times. Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson, characters played by Australian comedian Barry Humphries.
A persona (plural personae or personas) is a strategic mask of identity in public, [1] the public image of one's personality, the social role that one adopts, or simply a fictional character. [2] It is also considered "an intermediary between the individual and the institution."
Don Quixote and his sidekick Sancho Panza, as illustrated by Gustave Doré: the characters' contrasting qualities [1] are reflected here even in their physical appearances. In any narrative, a foil is a character who contrasts with another character, typically, a character who contrasts with the protagonist, in order to better highlight or differentiate certain qualities of the protagonist.
According to Andrew Escobedo, "literary personification marshalls inanimate things, such as passions, abstract ideas, and rivers, and makes them perform actions in the landscape of the narrative." [28] He dates "the rise and fall of its [personification's] literary popularity" to "roughly, between the fifth and seventeenth centuries". [29]
The persona poem evolved further in the twentieth century when the term 'persona' became popularised in psychology and anthropology by theorists in these fields. [12] For Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung , persona was the social face the individual presented to the world: "a kind of mask, designed on the one hand to make a definite impression upon ...
A distinct meaning of alter ego is found in the literary analysis used when referring to fictional literature and other narrative forms, describing a key character in a story who is perceived to be intentionally representative of the work's author (or creator), by oblique similarities, in terms of psychology, behavior speech, or thoughts, often ...