Question

Read the selection below from Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift and answer the question that follows. But the greatest danger I ever underwent in that kingdom was from a monkey, who belonged to one of the clerks in the kitchen. . . . [R]eaching one of his paws in at the door, as a cat does when she plays with a mouse . . . [he] seized the lappet of my coat . . . and dragged me out. He took me up in his right fore-foot, and held me as a nurse does a child she is going to suckle, just as I have seen the same sort of creature do with a kitten in Europe; and when I offered to struggle, he squeezed me so hard, that I thought it more prudent to submit. In the passage above, who or what is the antagonist of the character vs. nature conflict? the monkey the kitten the narrator the clerks

Answer 1

The antagonist is the monkey.

In the character vs. nature conflict, the narrator is the protagonist and the monkey is the antagonist.

The antagonist is the villain, the enemy. In nature conflicts, this role can be represented by an animal or a weather event, like a twister.