Can everything ever written boiled down
to a few fundamental stories?
Christopher Booker argues in his book
"Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories "
that everything can be classified by
just seven plots:
1. Overcoming the monster
2. Rags to riches
3. A journey - the quest
4. A journey - the voyage and return
5. Comedies
6. Tragedies
7. Rebirth
Or is there just one: "there once was
a problem, and it got resolved" which
includes all detective and adventure
stories - "there once was something to
find out, and someone did it". What do
you think? Can life really be distilled to
a few basic stories?
-J.
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