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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... leads initially to some kind of hectic gratification and dream - like success , but which then darkens inexorably to a climax of nightmare and destruction . And at this point two questions began to intrude . Firstly , why was this so ...
... leads initially to some kind of hectic gratification and dream - like success , but which then darkens inexorably to a climax of nightmare and destruction . And at this point two questions began to intrude . Firstly , why was this so ...
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... leads on in Part three to an investigation of one of the most revealing of all the factors which govern the way stories take shape in the human mind . The third part of the book , ' Missing the Mark ' , which concentrates almost ...
... leads on in Part three to an investigation of one of the most revealing of all the factors which govern the way stories take shape in the human mind . The third part of the book , ' Missing the Mark ' , which concentrates almost ...
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... leads him out of the city to a mysterious underground cave . We meet a Scottish general , Macbeth , who has just won ... lead the hero or heroine out of their initial state into a series of adventures or experiences which , to a greater ...
... leads him out of the city to a mysterious underground cave . We meet a Scottish general , Macbeth , who has just won ... lead the hero or heroine out of their initial state into a series of adventures or experiences which , to a greater ...
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... leads to a resolution of all that has gone before , bringing the story to its ending . And here we see how every story , however mildly or emphatically , has in fact been leading its central figure or figures in one of two directions ...
... leads to a resolution of all that has gone before , bringing the story to its ending . And here we see how every story , however mildly or emphatically , has in fact been leading its central figure or figures in one of two directions ...
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... leads to the ' miraculous escape ' by which humanity is saved . In the sequel Quatermass II ( 1955 ) our hero again saves mankind from extra- terrestrial invasion when he discovers that mysterious small meteorites dropping out of the ...
... leads to the ' miraculous escape ' by which humanity is saved . In the sequel Quatermass II ( 1955 ) our hero again saves mankind from extra- terrestrial invasion when he discovers that mysterious small meteorites dropping out of the ...
Inhalt
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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