The dramatic protagonists of his Classical dramas (particularly Mary Stuart and Joan of Arc) embody the ethical message essential to grace and dignity by maintaining Humanität in the face of adversity.
According to Felicia Lee of The New York Times, Pope is the only dramatic main protagonist role played by an African-American woman on American network television since 1974, when Teresa Graves starred as Christie Love in Get Christie Love! for one season.
That inherent unreliability makes fictional children appealing vehicles for dramatic irony, protagonist-witnesses of a story of which they have only a partial understanding, whose gaps in knowledge and comprehension mirror their readers' experience and occasionally leave us terrified in the face of their ignorance.
An important point here is that in a truly dramatic narrative, the protagonist must face failure.
Into the dramatic darkness, the unnamed protagonist and his family head up to the roof, where for once the stars are visible.
It is written as a dramatic monologue, with the protagonist constantly addressing the reader as "you," and it changed how I thought books could work.
Even with a murder investigation subplot and all sorts of sketchily rendered sin, "Shadow Hours" remains a film without dramatic momentum, an involving protagonist or more than a skittishly voyeuristic and superficial approach to its conflict between good and evil.
The "therapy" -- repeated zapping of the ovaries with X-rays, a treatment Atherton herself underwent -- produces a dramatic rejuvenation of the protagonist's body and spirits but offends all her increasingly decrepit female friends, who view this as an unnatural and indecent form of medicine.
The finale of the show's first season capped off a shockingly effective dramatic arc for hapless protagonist Forrest MacNeil, a man convinced he is capable of reviewing all life experiences for the benefit of the viewing public on his show, Review.
The writing staff does its best to engender audience sympathy for the power-hungry, fabulously wealthy Lyon dynasty (their success varies from character to character, season to season) but it's hard to sustain much of a dramatic thrust when your protagonists are both already on top of their profession and have never met an antagonist who can best them for more than a three-episode arc.
Celebrities in their own world, thanks to a level of dramatic irony the "civilian protagonists" allow.
