Freytag's Pyramid

Title: Freytag's Pyramid
Description: Gustav Freytag analyzed the structure of ancient Greek and Shakespearean plays, dividing them into five acts: the exposition, which provides background information such as the identities of the protagonist, the antagonist, and other supporting characters, the setting, and the basic conflict; the rising action, which, set into motion by an inciting moment, complicates the basic conflict; a turning point, or climax, which reverses the direction of the plot so that the story ultimately becomes either a comedy or a tragedy; the falling action, which unravels the conflict and may or may not end in a moment of final suspense during which the story's outcome becomes a matter of doubt; and either a resolution or denouement (comedy) or a catastrophe (tragedy).
Designer: Gary L. Pullman
Date: 2011
Bibliographic Citation: Pullman, G. L. (n.d.). Putting Freytag’s pyramid to use in charting your own (and others’) stories. Putting Freytag’s Pyramid To Use In Charting Your Own (And Others’) Stories. https://writinghorrorfiction.blogspot.com/2011/03/putting-freytags-pyramid-to-use-in.html; Freytag, G. (1863). Die technik des dramas.
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Title: The application of Freytag's Pyramid in Psycho
Description: In the suspenseful masterpiece 'Psycho,' directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock, a Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
Designer: Gary L. Pullman
Date: 2011
Bibliographic Citation: Pullman, G. L. (n.d.). Putting Freytag’s pyramid to use in charting your own (and others’) stories. Putting Freytag’s Pyramid To Use In Charting Your Own (And Others’) Stories. https://writinghorrorfiction.blogspot.com/2011/03/putting-freytags-pyramid-to-use-in.html; Freytag, G. (1863). Die technik des dramas.
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Hitchcock, Alfred, director. Psycho. 1960.