The graves are walking by john kelly6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() But the antagonist can also be time, society, change - even the weather. A villain makes things easy one of the reasons World War II history remains so popular is that it has an archvillain in Hitler, a genuinely bad person pursuing a wicked agenda justifying himself with evil ideas and attitudes. A good narrative needs a protagonist - the answer to that shrewd editor's question, "Whose story is this?" - but it needs an antagonist as well. ![]() Narrative history is a tricky business, fitting all those recalcitrant facts into the form of communication human beings love best. ![]()
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