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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... escape from the womb' (Jonah and the whale). After all, this was certainly relating stories to something universally experienced by mankind: our sexuality, our most fundamental human relationships, our memories of birth and fears of ...
... escape from the womb' (Jonah and the whale). After all, this was certainly relating stories to something universally experienced by mankind: our sexuality, our most fundamental human relationships, our memories of birth and fears of ...
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... escape from death' and the monster is slain. The hero's reward is beyond price.He wins thetreasure,or the hand of the'Princess'.He has liberated theworld – community, kingdom, the human race – from the shadow of this threat to its ...
... escape from death' and the monster is slain. The hero's reward is beyond price.He wins thetreasure,or the hand of the'Princess'.He has liberated theworld – community, kingdom, the human race – from the shadow of this threat to its ...
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... Escape From Death ' MONSTER ... Something extraordinary or unnatural ... an animal deviating in one or more of its parts from the normal ...... .. an imaginary animal having a form either partly brute and partly human , or compounded ...
... Escape From Death ' MONSTER ... Something extraordinary or unnatural ... an animal deviating in one or more of its parts from the normal ...... .. an imaginary animal having a form either partly brute and partly human , or compounded ...
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... escaping every kind of disaster, until at last they reach the cave and see, against the night sky: 'crouched massively above, like some nightmare monsters from another and ancient world, the evil, the sinister ... ESCAPE FROM DEATH.
... escaping every kind of disaster, until at last they reach the cave and see, against the night sky: 'crouched massively above, like some nightmare monsters from another and ancient world, the evil, the sinister ... ESCAPE FROM DEATH.
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... ' diabolic ends ' . ' For some years past ' says Holmes , ' I have been conscious of some deep organising power which stands forever in the way of the law ' . He 37 THE MONSTER ( II ) AND THE THRILLING ESCAPE FROM DEATH.
... ' diabolic ends ' . ' For some years past ' says Holmes , ' I have been conscious of some deep organising power which stands forever in the way of the law ' . He 37 THE MONSTER ( II ) AND THE THRILLING ESCAPE FROM DEATH.
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