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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... goal . I embarked on an almost indiscriminate course of reading and re - reading , through hundreds of stories of all kinds ( soon recognising how little most of us actually remember in detail even about stories we think we know quite ...
... goal . I embarked on an almost indiscriminate course of reading and re - reading , through hundreds of stories of all kinds ( soon recognising how little most of us actually remember in detail even about stories we think we know quite ...
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... goal . This book is divided into four parts . Part one , ' The Seven Gateways To The Underworld ' , examines each of the seven ' basic plots ' in turn . At first sight , each is quite distinctive . But as we work through the sequence ...
... goal . This book is divided into four parts . Part one , ' The Seven Gateways To The Underworld ' , examines each of the seven ' basic plots ' in turn . At first sight , each is quite distinctive . But as we work through the sequence ...
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... goal: as we see in David Copperfield's rival for the hand of Agnes, the treacherous Uriah Heep; or in Jane Eyre's egregious suitor St John Rivers. But these characters are typified by precisely 54 THE SEVEN BASIC PLOTS.
... goal: as we see in David Copperfield's rival for the hand of Agnes, the treacherous Uriah Heep; or in Jane Eyre's egregious suitor St John Rivers. But these characters are typified by precisely 54 THE SEVEN BASIC PLOTS.
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... goal is fairly simple. But the more systematically we examine such stories, the more we may be struck by the way the hero or heroine's emergence from the shadows is rarely presented as a simple, unbroken climb. In fact there is usually ...
... goal is fairly simple. But the more systematically we examine such stories, the more we may be struck by the way the hero or heroine's emergence from the shadows is rarely presented as a simple, unbroken climb. In fact there is usually ...
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... goal spelled out in detail ; as we do in the many other novels based on this plot such as Moll Flanders , Great Expectations or David Copperfield . In the first half of David Copperfield , we see the little orphan hero going through ...
... goal spelled out in detail ; as we do in the many other novels based on this plot such as Moll Flanders , Great Expectations or David Copperfield . In the first half of David Copperfield , we see the little orphan hero going through ...
Inhalt
1 | |
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