{"id":7353,"date":"2018-05-27T16:46:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T16:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=7353"},"modified":"2018-05-27T16:46:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T16:46:08","slug":"bbc-culture-every-story-in-the-world-has-one-of-these-six-basic-plots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/27\/bbc-culture-every-story-in-the-world-has-one-of-these-six-basic-plots\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC &#8211; Culture &#8211; Every story in the world has one of these six basic plots"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Thanks to new text-mining techniques, this has now been done. Researchers at the University of Vermont\u2019s Computational Story Lab have analysed over 1,700 English novels to reveal six basic story types \u2013 you could call them archetypes \u2013 that form the building blocks for more complex stories. They are:<br \/>\n1. Rags to riches \u2013 a steady rise from bad to good fortune<br \/>\n2. Riches to rags \u2013 a fall from good to bad, a tragedy<br \/>\n3. Icarus \u2013 a rise then a fall in fortune<br \/>\n4. Oedipus \u2013 a fall, a rise then a fall again<br \/>\n5. Cinderella \u2013 rise, fall, rise<br \/>\n6. Man in a hole \u2013 fall, rise<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/culture\/story\/20180525-every-story-in-the-world-has-one-of-these-six-basic-plots?utm_source=pocket&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=pockethits\">BBC &#8211; Culture &#8211; Every story in the world has one of these six basic plots<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to new text-mining techniques, this has now been done. Researchers at the University of Vermont\u2019s Computational Story Lab have analysed over 1,700 English novels to reveal six basic story types \u2013 you could call them archetypes \u2013 that form the building blocks for more complex stories. They are: 1. Rags to riches \u2013 a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/27\/bbc-culture-every-story-in-the-world-has-one-of-these-six-basic-plots\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BBC &#8211; Culture &#8211; Every story in the world has one of these six basic plots&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}