Quotes About Plot

We maintain, therefore, that the first essential, the life and soul, so to speak, of Tragedy is the Plot; and that the Characters come second—compare the parallel in painting, where the most beautiful colours laid on without order will not give one the same pleasure as a simple black-and-white sketch of a portrait.

Besides which, the most powerful elements of emotional interest in Tragedy — Peripeteia or Reversal of the Situation, and Recognition scenes — are parts of the plot.

Two parts, then, of the Plot — Reversal of the Situation and Recognition — turn upon surprises. A third part is the Scene of Suffering. The Scene of Suffering is a destructive or painful action, such as death on the stage, bodily agony, wounds and the like.

Every tragedy falls into two parts, — Complication and Unravelling or Denouement.

Of all plots and actions the epeisodic are the worst. I call a plot 'epeisodic' in which the episodes or acts succeed one another without probable or necessary sequence. Bad poets compose such pieces by their own fault, good poets, to please the players; for, as they write show pieces for competition, they stretch the plot beyond its capacity, and are often forced to break the natural continuity.

Readers of a certain class are apt to call good the plot of that story in which you can't tell what is going to happen next. But in some of the most tedious novels ever written you can't tell what is going to happen next--and you don't care a fig what is going to happen next.

We're at close grips at last, said Holmes as we walked together across the moor. What a nerve the fellow has! How he pulled himself together in the face of what must have been a paralyzing shock when he found that the wrong man had fallen a victim to his plot. I told you in London, Watson, and I tell you now again, that we have never had a foeman more worthy of our steel.

And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of

will, we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate matters immensely." "I

In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.

Uncertainty is as good a way as any to kill a story.

He took the messages to a local brewer, who wrapped them in a leather packet, which was then hidden inside a hollow bung used to seal a barrel of beer. The brewer would deliver the barrel to Chartley Hall, whereupon one of Mary's servants would open the bung and take the contents to the Queen of Scots. The process worked equally well for getting messages out of Chartley Hall.

Hören Sie genau zu, ich werde es nur einmal sagen. - Mit Grabestimme flüstere ich ins Telefon. - Ich organisiere eine Überraschungsparty für Lukes Geburtstag. Die Sache ist streng geheim, und Sie sind der siebte Mensch auf der Welt, der davon erfährt. Fast möchte ich hinzufügen: `Und jetzt muss ich Sie erschießen.´

Height to height and light to light, like butterflies and minor gods or aerial photographers we make this plot, pretend to view a former fate where Hardy's rustics still forgive what seems to them but nature's lot.

O comportamento humano nos contextos das redes operacionais frequentemente se assemelha a um ato dramático — se adéqua a um roteiro produzido para satisfazer as demandas de um enredo.

I'm always amazed at friends who say they try to read at night in bed but always end up falling asleep. I have the opposite problem. If a book is good I can't go to sleep, and stay up way past my bedtime, hooked on the writing. Is anything better than waking up after a late-night read and diving right back into the plot before you even get out of bed to brush your teeth?

Come, let us weave a plan!

she knew that once she had the plot, she could write the book fairly quickly.

Today Alessandro had his first meeting with a Frenchman from the "conversation exchange" website. His name is Florent, and he wants to learn Italian because he bought a plot of land in a tiny village near Lucca, in Tuscany, and he plans to build a house there. But mostly because he is in love with a waitress he met in the village.

A plot-structure is a series of integrated, logically connected events, moved by a central purpose, leading to the resolution of a climax.

Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority; and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace.

When you're reading a novel, I think the reason you care about how any given plot turns out is that you take it as a data point in the big story of how the world works. Does such-and-such a kind of guy get the girl in the end? Does adultery ever bring happiness? How do winners become winners?

Every reality show plot pales in comparison to our history.

With a reality show, the bottom line is, there's no plot; there's no finale.