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Jiang reframes Paradise as a drama with a protagonist and an antagonist, then uses that frame to ask what opposes Dante inside heaven.
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Antagonist
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...If it is true that Dante is protagonist, then who's the antagonist, right? In a book, you have protagonist, you have an antagonist. Protagonist..."
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Satan cannot be the antagonist in this stretch because the action is in heaven, where Jiang says Satan is not present.
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A student proposes that Dante's antagonist is his old self, the self he used to be before entering heaven.
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"...If it is true that Dante is protagonist, then who's the antagonist, right? In a book, you have protagonist, you have an antagonist. Protagonist..."
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"We're in heaven. Satan doesn't exist in heaven. No. CAROL ANNE RIDDLE JR.: Yes?"
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"Maybe his old self or something that he used to."
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"...why has Hollywood not produced a movie where China is the antagonist? Right. This is never going to happen. That's kind of strange. It..."
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"...and the west and the west is going to be the antagonist uh with the east uh the west is going to be holding..."
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"...Empire are important is we believe they are the two major antagonists in the Trojan War you may have heard of the Trojan War..."
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"...also fighting them? But if they are, then why are they antagonists? Why is Trump not as cordial with them as he is with..."
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"...example, the Jews, the Israelites, they are like almost like the antagonist to this because they are like the ultimate mythic religious people, like..."
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"...these things. We can't create great art anymore. It's almost the antagonist of the Western mindset. But in some sense, maybe it's the kind..."
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"...two competitors, okay? And they were called the protagonist, okay? And antagonist. So today, we know that protagonist means the hero of a novel...."
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