The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell StoriesBloomsbury Publishing, 11 nov 2005 - 736 pagina's 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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Pagina 23
... Princess'. So powerful is the presence of this figure, so great the sense of threat which emanates from it, that the only thing which matters to us as we follow the story is that it should be killed and its dark power overthrown ...
... Princess'. So powerful is the presence of this figure, so great the sense of threat which emanates from it, that the only thing which matters to us as we follow the story is that it should be killed and its dark power overthrown ...
Pagina 24
... Princess , Andromeda , chained to a rock by the sea . She has been placed there as tribute to appease a fearsome sea - monster , which has been sent by Poseidon to ravage her father's kingdom . Perseus sees the huge reptile rising out ...
... Princess , Andromeda , chained to a rock by the sea . She has been placed there as tribute to appease a fearsome sea - monster , which has been sent by Poseidon to ravage her father's kingdom . Perseus sees the huge reptile rising out ...
Pagina 25
... Princess Michal; and eventually the young giant-slayer succeeds Saul to become his country's greatest king. The hero's immediate reward for slaying the monster may not always be the winning of a 'Princess' and succession to a kingdom ...
... Princess Michal; and eventually the young giant-slayer succeeds Saul to become his country's greatest king. The hero's immediate reward for slaying the monster may not always be the winning of a 'Princess' and succession to a kingdom ...
Pagina 26
... Princess tethered by the edge of the sea, where she has been placed by her countrymen in a last desperate bid to buy off the monster's attacks. The monster approaches and George slays him; but, unlike Perseus, George is not then able to ...
... Princess tethered by the edge of the sea, where she has been placed by her countrymen in a last desperate bid to buy off the monster's attacks. The monster approaches and George slays him; but, unlike Perseus, George is not then able to ...
Pagina 27
... Princess ' , Dracula then turns his nocturnal attacks on the other , the hero's fiancée Mina . Gradually we see her sinking away into the mon- ster's deadly power . Harker and his friends eventually hunt Dracula down and pursue him back ...
... Princess ' , Dracula then turns his nocturnal attacks on the other , the hero's fiancée Mina . Gradually we see her sinking away into the mon- ster's deadly power . Harker and his friends eventually hunt Dracula down and pursue him back ...
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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