Yep, that's one of the seven themes. SEE BELOW.
From the Internet:
1. Overcoming the Monster: The hero learns of a great evil and goes on a journey to destroy it. Star Wars qualifies. Braveheart. Jaws. Any movie with Nazis in it.
2. Rags to Riches: A sad-sack beginning that leads to a happily ever after. A lot of Dickens’ stuff fits here. Disney princess movies. Harry Potter. Most every rom-com.
3. The Quest: Everybody loves a quest where the hero goes on a journey to find something, which can be a Lost Ark (literal of figurative), a body (Stand By Me), or even something unknown and unseen, which is known in Hollywood as a MacGuffin.
4. Voyage and Return: Like The Wizard of Oz, where Dorothy goes to a weird place with weird rules but ultimately returns home better off. I suppose I like Oz alright, but I’d rather give props to Back to the Future, because I’m of that ilk.
5. Comedies get their own category, too. For some reason, two people can’t be together, which creates all sorts of antics. They eventually figure it out, though. Again, most every rom-com ever, like When Harry Met Sally, or The Money Pit.
6. Tragedies are like riches to rags, where the villain gets it in the end. MacBeth and King Lear are classic examples.
7. Rebirth is like a tragedy but where the hero realizes his error before it’s too late, like in It’s a Wonderful Life.
It could be #2, as in a peasant falls in love with a princess, but again that is not explicitly in the definition.
Again, it could be pasted onto #3, The Quest -whether the quest is for some object or the Damsel in question, but again it is not the primary theme.
#4, Voyage and return, as when a simple lad goes on a voyage and endures great tragedies and triumphs, ultimately to return home with the Damsel he rescued...
Comedies... again a pasting of the theme but not the point.
Tragedies... in essence, Boy Loses Girl Forever -and who wants to have that happen?
Rebirth... I suppose that would be your point, but "Rebirth" is such a loose label that it could apply to anything from a failing restaurant being re-branded and starting up again to someone's girlfriend dying (not to mention the ex- coming back to evilly haunt you forever) and then returning that I cannot realistically assign it to that.
Sorry, but I think it needs a simple category all its own.
P.S: Aren’t #3 and #4 (”The Quest”, and “Voyage and Return”) pretty much the same thing? Just wondering...