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Bokbreath t1_j92rq32 wrote

Per Vonnegut
>researchers found there are “six core trajectories which form the building blocks of complex narratives”. These are: “rags to riches” (a story that follows a rise in happiness), “tragedy”, or “riches to rags” (one that follows a fall in happiness), “man in a hole” (fall–rise), “Icarus” (rise–fall), “Cinderella” (rise–fall–rise), and “Oedipus” (fall–rise–fall).

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foulbeastly t1_j92wah3 wrote

I remember in elementary school learning about kinds of conflict as well- man vs nature, man vs god, man vs man, and man vs self.

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Nice_Sun_7018 t1_j93de7d wrote

God creates dinosaurs, god destroys dinosaurs, god creates man, man destroys god, man creates dinosaurs, dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the earth

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brickmaster32000 t1_j93g4yd wrote

That is just a result of how you choose to catergorize things. I could also just as easily say that all stories fall into only two categories, stories about hippos and stories that arent about hippos.

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Bokbreath t1_j93i3uz wrote

You can - and that would also be correct. Whether it is useful to anyone is another question

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