“There aren’t too many “new” themes to the human experience.”
It is said that there are only 7 plotlines.
I don’t know what they all are. One I know is “boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl”. But I guess that’s considered very sexist and heternormative now.
From the Internet:
The seven basic plots are:
1. overcoming the monster;
2. rags to riches;
3. the quest;
4. voyage and return;
5. comedy;
6. tragedy;
7. rebirth.
HOW did we ever survive without Google and the Internet?
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Oh yeah, books. :o)