The Nemesis as the Protagonist’s ‘Shadow’

Scott Myers
Go Into The Story
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4 min readSep 25, 2019

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“The Nemesis as a kind of mirror reflecting back the Protagonist’s shadow is a great way to think about their relationship.”

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I am currently teaching my Core III: Character one-week online course and today, we zeroed in on the Nemesis. Here is my response to a question posted by one of the writers in my class:

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