The phrase "ambitious protagonist" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a main character in a story or narrative who has strong desires or goals, often driving the plot forward.
Example: "In the novel, the ambitious protagonist strives to achieve her dreams despite numerous obstacles in her path."
Alternatives: "driven main character" or "aspiring lead character".
In 1961, the year Mr. Obama was born, Mr. Poitier played Walter Lee Younger, the flawed, ambitious protagonist of "A Raisin in the Sun".
That's the question that comes to preoccupy Jules Jacobson, the ambitious protagonist of Meg Wolitzer's remarkable ninth novel, "The Interestings," whose inclusive vision and generous sweep place it among the ranks of books like Jonathan Franzen's "Freedom" and Jeffrey Eugenides's "Marriage Plot".
In the familiar eschatology of addiction memoirs — David Carr's "The Night of the Gun," say, or Bill Clegg's "Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man" — an ambitious protagonist is bested by the wearying force of substances, only to later conquer his dependency and return, relatively unscathed, to the more wholesome business of achievement and success.
In William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," a soothsayer warns our ambitious protagonist of the Ides of March.
The 16th feature by Ms. Corsini, the film is a rigorous moral inquiry that puts its characters — but especially its ambitious young protagonist, Al (Raphaël Personnaz) — through the wringer.
Julien Sorel, fictional character, the ambitious young protagonist of Stendhal's novel Le Rouge et le noir (1830; The Red and the Black).
The rise and ultimate fall of Rep. Anthony Weiner's once-brilliant political career has many elements of a classic Greek tragedy, where the highly ambitious, competent, powerful protagonist suffers a horrible fate.
The novel is inventive and spirited but, like its protagonist, prematurely ambitious.
Like its caddish protagonist, an ambitious nightclub hoofer with a bad case of satyriasis, "Pal Joey" is known for breaking hearts.
It's correct to think of light as his subject, but when he was most ambitious light was a protagonist in an epic narrative of creation and destruction — an Anglo-Zoroastrian burnout.
It's correct to think of light as his subject, but when he was most ambitious light was a protagonist in an epic narrative of creation and destruction an Anglo-Zoroastrian burnout.
