Classical Literary Criticism by Penelope Murray

Author:Penelope Murray
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 1965-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

Simple and Complex Plots

Some plots are simple, and some complex, for the obvious reason that the actions of which they are representations are of one or other of these kinds. By a simple action I refer to one which is single and continuous in the sense of my earlier definition, and in which the change of fortune comes about without a reversal or a recognition. A complex action is one in which the change is accompanied by a recognition or a reversal, or both. These should develop out of the very structure of the plot, so that they are the inevitable or probable consequence of what has gone before; for there is a big difference between what happens as a result of something else and what merely happens after it.

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