The phrase "active protagonist" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a character in a story or narrative who takes initiative and drives the plot forward through their actions and decisions.
Example: "In the novel, the active protagonist challenges societal norms and inspires others to join her cause."
Alternatives: "dynamic lead character" or "engaged main character".
But then he drew a triangle on an overhead projector slide: at the top was "Classical Design" (stories with causality, closed endings, linear time, an external conflict, a single, active protagonist); in the other corners he wrote "Minimalism" (open endings, passive protagonists) and "Anti-Structure" (coincidence, nonlinear time).
First, he becomes an important and active protagonist in the pursuit of the Trojan War itself.
"Women are so used to that active empathizing with the active protagonist of a male-driven plot.
Every component of matrix is potentially an active protagonist in stone pathogenesis until proven otherwise.
Here, we provide evidence that XBP1 mRNA is not a passive substrate but an active protagonist in the splicing reaction.
"We're arguing that the buildings are active protagonists.
By looking afresh at buildings within paintings, treating them as active protagonists, it becomes clear that they performed a series of crucial roles".
The books' sexually active protagonists are compared, among other things, to wakening beasts, lightning rods, outrageous sea creatures and "the midnight train".
On the other hand, not only does Jesus' lifeless body elicit the viewer's pity, but, as Professor Hamburger pointed out, the fact that the active protagonists in the scene have become female figures invited the nuns' identification with the drama.
There was a significant difference between nurses, patients and families in all phases with 90% of nurses as active protagonists in the crisis phase, 33% active in the normalisation phase with only 2 patients being active protagonists in the normalisation phase.
To do so co-evolutionary contexts need to be built in which the various subjects inhabiting and travelling over the various territories can be involved in a return to being active protagonists of the building of their own destiny (Decandia [2000]).
