ENG110Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Kurt Vonnegut
Document Summary
Story: a specific sequence of events with specific characters. Plot: a story-type; the kinds of characters and sequences (events) are the same, but there are differences in the specific details. Masterplot: a plot or story-type that is very common in a culture. It"s so common that it"s all over the place. Kurt vonnegut loves the cinderella plot line, because it is used often and is very similar and well-known. (created a chart of the cinderella plot line) If there are different sequences of events, they are two different stories. You can have the same people, same setting (magic, royal balls), but the motivations could be different. Because they can guide our thinking, it seems very familiar to our lives. Most of our idea are not our own . We absorb things from various factors (people around us, our environment, media etc. In story 11, cinderella"s character is conniving, less innocent because she has more.
