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The plot's necessary villain, secretly the only character that makes the ending mean anything.
means To make strenuous effort against difficulty, resistance, or one's own stubborn limitations.
from From the Middle English 'struglen,' likely echoing a Scandinavian root for striving and writhing — the body's word before the mind's.
Verb and nounYou struggle through a struggle, grammar's cruelest loop.
Survival rootsDarwin's 'struggle for existence' built all of biology.
Modern slang'The struggle is real' weaponized it into comedy.