l There should be two components to the catastrophe in a comedy’s narrative structure.
l One, as we have seen already, was a peripeteia, or reversal of fortune. The other was anagnorisis, a transition from ignorance to knowledge, in accordance with Evanthias’ original formula:‘The catastrophe is the reversal ( conversion) of affairs preparatory to the cheerful outcome, and revealed to all by means of a discovery ( cognition).
l Dramatic interest or suspense may be of two different types: 1, suspense of anticipation; the spectator knows what is to happen, but not when or how; he follows the progress of the action and awaits with ever---increasing hope of fear the coming of the expected event;
Like 《crazy stone》：
2, suspense of uncertainty in a state of ignorance and curiosity about the later action.
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