<P> Sometimes the protagonist will not even be human: in Richard Adams' novel Watership Down, a group of anthropomorphised rabbits, led by the protagonist Hazel, escape their warren after seeing a vision of its destruction, starting a perilous journey to find a new home . </P> <P> The protagonists mentioned in these examples are mainly men . The one example in the play The Master Builder, a woman in the first half of the play takes on the role of the protagonist, then her step - son takes over the other half . This relates to the assumptions that women cannot sustain a role of a protagonist because of the existing equality gap between men and women especially today . This relates to the structure in Rositters "women's work" which portrays the gender gap between men and women in science . Also this relates to the structure in Wikipedia's gender gap issue that exposes the importance for men to keep their dominant role instead of having women take on that role . </P>

When does the author introduce the main characters