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What is a protagonist?

What is a protagonist? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The main character, or one of the main characters, in any story, such as a literary work or drama.
  2. A leading person in a contest; a principal performer.
  3. An advocate or champion of a cause or course of action.
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She seems more enamored of her stock hero and his inamorata than of the cultural, anthropological pursuits of her protagonist.
Amazingly, the protagonist dismisses with understatement the loss of his factory job.
In that book, the protagonist is a professor of agronomics at the University of California.
Apart from the change in protagonist, the story arc seems to be much the same.
Umberto D appears as a remarkable accomplishment today, a film that evokes our sympathy for its protagonist without sentimentality.
From a doting bahu she has turned into a protagonist of social issues in her new television avatar.

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