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The bigger story
There are only two stories in this world.
- The guy gets the girl
- The guy doesn’t get the girl
Everything else you can come up with is a variant or add on of this.
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November 11th, 2005 - 18:03
what you say is correct for romance stories. But I’d like to add four more to your list:
1) Guy get Guy
2) Guy doesn’t get guy
3) Girl gets girl
4) Girl doesn’t get girl.
I am just keeping with the times.
Also, they say there are seven basic plots:
1 Overcoming the Monster (e.g. Beowulf, Dracula)
2 Rags to Riches (Cinderella, Dick Whittington)
3 The Quest (Odyssey)
4 Voyage and Return (Robinson Crusoe, Alice in Wonderland)
5 Comedy (Marriage of Figaro, loadsa Shakespeare)
6 Tragedy (Hamlet, loadsamore Shakespeare)
7 Rebirth (The Snow Queen, Peer Gynt)
google for them. To me, a story is a story. Everything is a story. I don’t want to trouble myself with the analysis now. So, there.
P.S. So, did the guy get the girl?
November 11th, 2005 - 18:17
Guy getting girl, girl getting guy, girl getting girl and guy getting guy are all variations of the same theme.
As to the others, replace girl with riches and you have a rags to riches story.
Replace girl with devil/monster/villain and add victory/conquest and you have the overcoming the devil story.
Tragedy is guy not getting the girl or guy not getting the money or guy not getting his pound of flesh.
Rebirth is something i think is different. thanks for that…
November 11th, 2005 - 18:22
A very interesting post. Didnt think of it before in this way. The prior comment from Suman was pretty interesting as well.
November 12th, 2005 - 19:27
It’s all maya.
November 13th, 2005 - 02:45
what bt bdsm?
November 13th, 2005 - 06:15
This is like the superman of analogies.
November 13th, 2005 - 07:37
Okai, lets assume, I get your point here.. but what i am interested is whether the ‘ever after’ part is happy…?
November 14th, 2005 - 06:11
All of them utimately obey Murphy’s Laws.
November 14th, 2005 - 14:22
Rebirth = substitute “girl” with “another shot at life”
anyways, I was wondering how the story of Lagaan wud fit in this analogy..
November 14th, 2005 - 14:33
conquest, victory, hero guy getting the runs and trophy and freedom and tax break, villain guy not getting the trophy and the tax money
November 15th, 2005 - 16:02
jsut dropped in while surfing…would just like to say I really enjoyed reading your blog!
November 15th, 2005 - 20:04
Oh before you pull the plug on Sel Am please answer the question from Rajesh. So guy gets girl, guy gets guy, guy does not girl, whatever, but does anyone live happily ever after?
December 6th, 2005 - 18:02
‘ever after’ ??
And whats all this abt re-birth. The story, if any, is about the birth- atleast for the women who give birth. Don’t frighten me about re-birth now
October 24th, 2008 - 04:27
I agree with him Guy getting girl, girl getting guy, girl getting girl and guy getting guy are all variations of the same theme. They all lead to the same road