Title: Introduction to Theatre -- Plot
Headings: P
Objectives for this lesson:
Content: Conflict
-- the clash of opposing forces: man vs. self, vs. man, vs. environment, vs. natural forces, vs. group, vs. God, or group vs. group. " Inciting incident " (or "initiating incident"): the event that occurs in the play to begin the conflict. The inciting/initiating incident of the play must occur within the play itself. The inciting/initiating incident of Oedipus Rex cannot, therefore, be Oedipus's killing of Laius or the plague, because both of those have already happened -- they are part of the antecedent action -- before the play actually begins. " Complications and obstacles " --
Discoveries, reversals (peripety)
Sub-plots / parallel plots -- major and minor conflicts
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3. Climax -- the point at which one or the other of the forces is favored; the point at which events must turn in one direction or another. Not necessarily the "high point"
Falling Action
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