![]() ![]() There is the meteoric ‘Rise’ with His ‘n’ Hers, followed by the ‘Climax’ of their masterpiece Different Class and their momentous Glastonbury-headlining set. There is the ‘Introduction’ in the long pre-fame incubation of the band in the derelict but fertile brownfield of Sheffield. Viewed in retrospect, Pulp’s career appears to confirm Freytag’s five acts. Whether it was true or not is incidental. With the advent of the online world, it became the dominant prism through which we perceive our own lives. With the advent of cinema, the five act structure became the dominant way of portraying life. It tamed and rationalised the chaos of life, and therefore became an appealing belief system. Though the structure existed in practise before then, it took off after Freytag formalised it, and it’s easy to see why audiences, theatre producers, and political and religious moralists were all flattered by the comfort and order it offered. Another problem was that life, with all its messy tangents and inconvenient loose ends, does not necessarily unfold in five acts. The problem was Freytag, for all his talent and success, was a racist Prussian supremacist and had, to put it mildly, something of a questionable world-view. In Die Technik des Dramas (1863), Gustav Freytag argued for an ideal five act structure in storytelling. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |