The best definition for a protagonist is going to be: B. The character in a work of fiction who tries to achieve a particular purpose and who is usually the main character. Hope that helps.
vernacular (by Native American tribes)
romantic (Othello, Hamlet etc)
I was able to search a similar question on the internet, and this has been asked on a different website also. The answer is Letter C - the way men treat women evoked a sense of the cultural values in the set of the story for the readers.