The Glass of Water by Scribe

I believe that in The Glass of Water, Bolingbroke is the protagonist.  It is his struggles that are most central to the plot and Scribe sort of gives him the power of knowing everyone’s business and from there he is given the power to be able to manipulate each other character into either quarreling with the other or into having them befriend each other and through a bunch of twists and turns, Bolingbroke not only gets what he wants, but also he ends up being able to get those he cares about what they want as well, more or less.  He is the starter of everything that occurs and he is the one who really moves the plot along.  Scribe even explicitly tells us this by having a few allusions to the “battle” he and the duchess are having and then at the end saying that it is he who won the “battle.”   Bolingbroke is also the only character who doesn’t really have something personal that appeals to his emotions on the line so Scribe wrote his character in a way that set him apart form the other characters and set him in a whole different dynamic.  Bolingbroke is also the only character who has another character directly opposing him, the duchess, but the unlike Bolingbroke the duchess doesn’t always know what is going on with all the other characters like Bolingbroke does.  She is left in the dark.  I would also say that it is the havoc that Bolingbroke creates that receives the most stage time and it’s within other character’s encounters that Bolingbroke set up that he either triumphs or fails depending if events are unfolding as he had planned.