Here’s an interesting article about the six different \u00a0structures of stories, each one plotable to an identifiable shape on a graph.<\/p>\n
They collected computer-generated story arcs for nearly 2,000 works of fiction, classifying each into one of six core types of narratives (based on what happens to the protagonist).<\/p>\n
Our ability to communicate relies in part upon a shared emotional experience, with stories often following distinct emotional trajectories and forming patterns that are meaningful to us. Here, by classifying the emotional arcs for a filtered subset of 1,327 stories from Project Gutenberg’s fiction collection, we find a set of six core emotional arcs which form the essential building blocks of complex emotional trajectories.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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- Rags to Riches (rise)<\/li>\n
- Riches to Rags (fall)<\/li>\n
- Man in a Hole (fall then rise)<\/li>\n
- Icarus (rise then fall)<\/li>\n
- Cinderella (rise then fall then<\/li>\n
- Oedipus (fall then rise then fall)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n