Marcus has just read a soliloquy in which the play’s antagonist challenges the gods with these words: oh, gods, you cannot stop me now! no force of nature can halt my plan. tonight, the king shall propose to alexandra, though he knows not that her loyalty is already sworn to me. ha! and then, when that weak and softhearted king has pledged his love to a serpent in disguise, i shall finally see my moment of sweet revenge! ” what can marcus learn from the antagonist’s soliloquy? the antagonist is bound by the rules of the gods. alexandra is the antagonist’s daughter. the antagonist is really a princess in disguise. the antagonist feels she has been wronged by the king.

At first i was afraid to approach him—then the fear left me. he was sitting looking out over the city—he was dressed in the clothes of the gods. his age was neither young nor old—i could not tell his age. but there was wisdom in his face and great sadness. you could see that he would have not run away. he had sat at his window, watching his city die—then he himself had died. but it is better to lose one's life than one's spirit—and you could see from the face that his spirit had not been lost. i knew, that, if i touched him, he would fall into dust—and yet, there was something unconquered in the face. how does the conflict at the beginning of the paragraph move the plot forward? the narrator realizes that he is scared of the gods. the narrator realizes that he distrusts the spirits the narrator realizes that the god was a man. the narrator realizes that he is powerful like the gods.