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Romantic and Star-Crossed Figures

Protagonists whose defining conflict is romantic: courtship, marriage, forbidden love, or a love thwarted by social convention, class, law or circumstance. Belongs here: a protagonist whose central arc is organized around a romantic attachment and its obstacles. Does not belong here: a protagonist whose romance is incidental to a quest, tragedy or coming-of-age arc that is the work's real center, tracked under those groups above.

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