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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... begins from another faculty which is itself so much part of our lives that we fail to see just how strange it is ... begin to explore the psychology behind our ability to imagine stories, it becomes obvious that this 'explan- ation' in ...
... begins from another faculty which is itself so much part of our lives that we fail to see just how strange it is ... begin to explore the psychology behind our ability to imagine stories, it becomes obvious that this 'explan- ation' in ...
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... begins with a hero , or heroes , in some way unfulfilled . The mood at the beginning of the story is one of ... begin to go mysteriously wrong , to the ' nightmare stage ' where everything goes horrendously wrong , ending in that final ...
... begins with a hero , or heroes , in some way unfulfilled . The mood at the beginning of the story is one of ... begin to go mysteriously wrong , to the ' nightmare stage ' where everything goes horrendously wrong , ending in that final ...
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... begins in London, centred on a handful of survivors, including the hero and heroine, who have for various reasons retained their sight. They eventu- ally manage to escape the city, where most of the population are helplessly falling ...
... begins in London, centred on a handful of survivors, including the hero and heroine, who have for various reasons retained their sight. They eventu- ally manage to escape the city, where most of the population are helplessly falling ...
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... begins to return to normal . The same year , 1953 , just after the Queen's Coronation had prompted millions of Britons to install their first primitive television sets , the first serial on the new medium to catch the nation's ...
... begins to return to normal . The same year , 1953 , just after the Queen's Coronation had prompted millions of Britons to install their first primitive television sets , the first serial on the new medium to catch the nation's ...
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... begins when Quatermass realises that most human beings are still unwittingly influenced by this ' Martian element ' buried in their unconscious , and that this is now being activated by the unearthing of the buried space capsule . The ...
... begins when Quatermass realises that most human beings are still unwittingly influenced by this ' Martian element ' buried in their unconscious , and that this is now being activated by the unearthing of the buried space capsule . The ...
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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