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 7
... turn . At first sight , each is quite distinctive . But as we work through the sequence , we gradually come to see how they have certain key elements in common ; and how each is in fact presenting its own particular view of the same ...
... turn . At first sight , each is quite distinctive . But as we work through the sequence , we gradually come to see how they have certain key elements in common ; and how each is in fact presenting its own particular view of the same ...
Pagina 10
... turn to the Grimms, having been passed on by missionaries and dressed up in local clothing. But one consequence of uncovering such complexities is that these busy collect- ors have been so overwhelmed by the Everest of material they ...
... turn to the Grimms, having been passed on by missionaries and dressed up in local clothing. But one consequence of uncovering such complexities is that these busy collect- ors have been so overwhelmed by the Everest of material they ...
Pagina 23
... turn a man to stone. Perseus is equipped by the gods with magic weapons, a pair of winged sandals, enabling him to fly, a 'helmet of invisibility' and a brilliantly polished shield, in which he will be able to see the Medusa's ...
... turn a man to stone. Perseus is equipped by the gods with magic weapons, a pair of winged sandals, enabling him to fly, a 'helmet of invisibility' and a brilliantly polished shield, in which he will be able to see the Medusa's ...
Pagina 24
... turn the monster to stone . He is reward- ed with the hand of the Princess , for liberating her father's kingdom from this awful threat . He returns home , where he uses the Medusa's head to turn the tyrant Acrisius to stone , and ...
... turn the monster to stone . He is reward- ed with the hand of the Princess , for liberating her father's kingdom from this awful threat . He returns home , where he uses the Medusa's head to turn the tyrant Acrisius to stone , and ...
Pagina 39
... turn the tables , outwitting and killing the villain . He thus saves not only his own life but Fort Knox , London ... turns out to be merely a mechanical ' monster ' , built by Dr No to frighten off the local fisher- men , but it ...
... turn the tables , outwitting and killing the villain . He thus saves not only his own life but Fort Knox , London ... turns out to be merely a mechanical ' monster ' , built by Dr No to frighten off the local fisher- men , but it ...
Inhoudsopgave
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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