story and structure

• l  Stories with happy endings-----implies a narrative form.
  Narrative : story and structure
  l  According to Evanthius, then, a narrative comedy consists, or should consist, of the following components or functions in the following order: a protasis, or exposition, an epitasis, or complication, a catastsis, or complication, and epitasis, or resolution.
  l  First there is a protasis, during the part of the film we are introduced to the principal protagonisis (usually through the device of having them introduced to one another).
  l  Next comes the epitasis, Thanks to Nadia’s drunken behavior, the dinner is disrupted.
  l  Now comes the catastasis.
  l  The catastrophe comes at the last minute. According to neoclassical theory, the catastrophe consists, or should consist, of a definitive peripeteia, or reversal of fortune.
  l  In the case of Bland Date, for instance, one cansee that there are two potential catastrophes corresponding to the two different instances of complication, they echo and invert one another.
  l  Alcohol, meanwhile, emerges as an element with a number of important functions. It is responsible for the complications comprising the epitasis. And it is the agent enabling the resolution of the catastasis.