This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast. I hope you enjoyed this

week's episode, The Role of the Antigonist in Story Structure, Part 2 of two.

One way to think about plot is as a push pull between protagonist and antagonist.

Although the protagonist is the character who frames and indeed decides the story's structure,

the role of the antagonist in story structure is equally important.

Last week, I shared an overview of the

antagonist's role in the first five major structural beats within a story. I

originally intended it to be one episode but it turned out to be

nearly twice as long as usual so I split it into. Today we'll be rounding out the subject by

examining the role of the antagonist in the second half of a story's structure, the second pinch point through the resolution.

And once again, it is important to remember the distinction between resolution. and the antagonist who is a specific character representing this force within the story.

The antagonistic force will function in a fixed and therefore relatively universal way within the story structure in order to

evoke the most resonant responses from the protagonist.

The antagonist, as a human character, however, will be much more dynamic and even unpredictable within the story.

What I've shared in this little series is focused more on the antagonistic forces impact upon the structure and is therefore

very general.

Within your specific story, the antagonist as a character may function in ways much more nuanced than what is presented here.

All righty, so the antagonist's role in the second half of the story's structure, beginning with what

is number six in our list, the role of the antagonist in the second pinch point mirrors the first pinch point in emphasizing the

stakes and the potential threat of the antagonist specifically the Whatever the antagonist threatens here will be significantly endangered or destroyed later in the third plot point.

However, the very threat itself is what prompts the protagonist into the possibly hubristic

gambit of the false victory that precedes the low moment.

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