Notebook : a Journey in Freytag’s Pyramid
Notebook : a Journey in Freytag’s Pyramid
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2016
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Research committee, Albert Laurence School of Communication Arts, Assumption University
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The 2nd CA Creative Work Faculty Showcase 2016 "Sufficiency", 122-124
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In 1863, Gustav Freytag analyzed
Aristotle’s theory of tragedy and found
patterns that classic novels had in com-
mon, which were
1) Exposition: the set up of the story,
2) Inciting Incident: the first conflict that
riggers the story intensity,
3) Rising Action: the conflict gets more
omplicated,
4) Climax: the highest tension of the story,
5) Falling Action: the conflict unraveled,
6) Resolution: the problem solved, and
7) Dénouement: what happens after the
problem has been solved. This theory is
ater known as Freytag’s Pyramid.
http://www.ohio.edu/people/hartleyg/
ef/fiction/freytag.html).
These plot points appear in classic
tories for the likes of The Great Gatsby
nd Romeo and Juliet. Every creative writ-
ng student must learn this structure as the
undamental of the story dramatic struc-
ure. But is the structure applicable with
ontemporary stories?
Hence, the author would like to challenge if theory can be told in a form of fictional
story. Does the classic structure work with
contemporary short stories? Does it work
if the ‘dead or alive’ of the protagonist that
usually be the climax start in the beginning
and having multiple climaxes?
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