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<blockquote data-quote="ExploderWizard" data-source="post: 4575406" data-attributes="member: 66434">I don't think it breaks down so simply. Why is the meteor an antagonist? The meteor(ite) is hunk of dead matter that landed nearby. It has no will, and thus does not antagonize anything. If said meteor was hurled from the heavens from an angry god then we have an antagonist.&nbsp;If no ill intentioned higher being was involved, the meteor is a force of nature and we have a man vs. nature conflict. Assuming nature is not being personified here as a vengeful or spiteful force, then we have no antagonist.&nbsp;As far as the man vs. whatever, thats a very humanocentric way of viewing what a story is. If a tale were told of a mighty battle between the Greek gods and the titans, would it be a story? It doesn't involve man at all.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="ExploderWizard, post: 4575406, member: 66434"] I don't think it breaks down so simply. Why is the meteor an antagonist? The meteor(ite) is hunk of dead matter that landed nearby. It has no will, and thus does not antagonize anything. If said meteor was hurled from the heavens from an angry god then we have an antagonist. If no ill intentioned higher being was involved, the meteor is a force of nature and we have a man vs. nature conflict. Assuming nature is not being personified here as a vengeful or spiteful force, then we have no antagonist. As far as the man vs. whatever, thats a very humanocentric way of viewing what a story is. If a tale were told of a mighty battle between the Greek gods and the titans, would it be a story? It doesn't involve man at all.;) [/QUOTE]

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