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(2015) From fairy tale to film screenplay, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
In The Poetics, Aristotle suggests that a plot needs to have sufficient amplitude to allow a probable or necessary succession of particular actions to produce a significant change in the fortune of the main character.1 What this means for Aristotle is that in comedies, the main character moves from bad to good fortune, while in tragedies the main character moves from good to bad fortune. With these definitions, Aristotle commits himself to the view that all well-structured stories have something in common.
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Murphy, T. (2015). Vladimir Propp's functional analysis of the fairy tale, in From fairy tale to film screenplay, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 9-15.
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