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Might be worth mentioning that there's a small Mandalorian spoiler at the end of the "Bringing them back for more" section. Northrop Frye analyzed biblical sto
by Veen 6y ago
Might be worth mentioning that there's a small Mandalorian spoiler at the end of the "Bringing them back for more" section.
Northrop Frye analyzed biblical stories[0] and considered comedies to have a U-shaped structure(starting high, falling to a low-point, and ending on a high-point) that's comparable to Wadge's "La-di-da; oh shoot; la-di-da."
Tragedies have an inverted U-shaped structure (rising to a high, crisis, and then decline). There are lots of formalist structures of this variety: Freytag's [1] five-part pyramid structure is another one, but focused on tragedy not comedy.
[0]: https://itstartstoday.com/the-bible-and-literature-the-shape-of-the-bible/ https://itstartstoday.com/the-bible-and-literature-the-shape...
[1]: https://thewritepractice.com/freytags-pyramid/ https://thewritepractice.com/freytags-pyramid/