The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell StoriesBloomsbury Publishing, 11.11.2005 - 736 Seiten This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world. Using a wealth of examples, from ancient myths and folk tales via the plays and novels of great literature to the popular movies and TV soap operas of today, it shows that there are seven archetypal themes which recur throughout every kind of storytelling. But this is only the prelude to an investigation into how and why we are 'programmed' to imagine stories in these ways, and how they relate to the inmost patterns of human psychology. Drawing on a vast array of examples, from Proust to detective stories, from the Marquis de Sade to E.T., Christopher Booker then leads us through the extraordinary changes in the nature of storytelling over the past 200 years, and why so many stories have 'lost the plot' by losing touch with their underlying archetypal purpose. Booker analyses why evolution has given us the need to tell stories and illustrates how storytelling has provided a uniquely revealing mirror to mankind's psychological development over the past 5000 years. This seminal book opens up in an entirely new way our understanding of the real purpose storytelling plays in our lives, and will be a talking point for years to come. |
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... falls under the shadow of a great and mysterious evil . The source of the threat is traced to a monstrous figure , the mad and deformed scientist Dr No , who lives half across the world in an underground cavern on a remote island . The ...
... falls under the shadow of a great and mysterious evil . The source of the threat is traced to a monstrous figure , the mad and deformed scientist Dr No , who lives half across the world in an underground cavern on a remote island . The ...
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... falls fatally into Dracula's power : ' Far down the avenue of yews we saw a white figure advance ... Lucy Westenra , but yet how changed . The sweetness was changed to adamantine , heartless cruelty , and the purity to voluptuous ...
... falls fatally into Dracula's power : ' Far down the avenue of yews we saw a white figure advance ... Lucy Westenra , but yet how changed . The sweetness was changed to adamantine , heartless cruelty , and the purity to voluptuous ...
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... falls dead to the ground, and Jack is left to enjoy the three priceless treasures he has won from its grasp. The ... fall into its clutches. Often it is threatening an entire community or kingdom, even mankind and the world in general ...
... falls dead to the ground, and Jack is left to enjoy the three priceless treasures he has won from its grasp. The ... fall into its clutches. Often it is threatening an entire community or kingdom, even mankind and the world in general ...
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... falls into the monster's clutches . But this enables him to get a full view of his sinister and repulsive opponent for the first time.2 Because the villain thinks he has Bond in his power , he reveals the full scale of his intentions ...
... falls into the monster's clutches . But this enables him to get a full view of his sinister and repulsive opponent for the first time.2 Because the villain thinks he has Bond in his power , he reveals the full scale of his intentions ...
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... falls overboard and is swallowed by the ' great fish . For three days he lies in its cavernous interior , sure he is about to die : " The water encompassed me round about , even to the soul ; the depth closed me round about , the weeds ...
... falls overboard and is swallowed by the ' great fish . For three days he lies in its cavernous interior , sure he is about to die : " The water encompassed me round about , even to the soul ; the depth closed me round about , the weeds ...
Inhalt
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15 | |
THE COMPLETE HAPPY ENDING | 237 |
MISSING THE MARK | 345 |
WHY WE TELL STORIES | 541 |
The Light and the Shadows on the Wall | 699 |
Authors Personal Note | 703 |
Glossary of Terms | 707 |
Bibliography | 711 |
Index of Stories Cited | 715 |
General Index | 720 |
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Aladdin Amleth anima Anna Karenina archetypal arrives beautiful become begins central figure centre century characters Comedy comes complete consciousness Creon Dark Father dark feminine dark figure dark masculine dark power Dark Rival death developed Don Giovanni Dream Stage egocentric egotism emerge eventually everything familiar fantasy film finally girl goal Hamlet happens happy ending heart hero and heroine hero or heroine human imagination inner James Bond Jane Eyre journey killed king kingdom liberated light lives look Macbeth married Moby Dick mother murder mysterious nature Nightmare Stage novel obsession Odysseus Oedipus ordeals Overcoming the Monster pattern play plot Princess Quest Rags to Riches realise recognise represents role seems seen sense shadow storytelling symbolic symbolised Teiresias tells Theseus thing Tragedy transformation true turn type of story ultimately uncon unconscious values Voyage and Return whole wife Wise Old woman young