The protagonist is the main/leading character and the antagonist s usually a character or a group of characters that oppose the story's main character, who is known as the protagonist.
Further angered, Unferth declares that either he or Grendel will die that night in the cave. Grendel, however, says that he plans to carry Unferth back to the meadhall unscathed. Unferth swears he would rather kill himself, but Grendel points out that such an action would appear rather cowardly.
