Year 9 - Lesson 5

The final battle between the conflicting forces in a story

• Equilibrium

• Disequilibrium

• Disruption

• Climax

The event in the narrative which tears normal life apart for the main character

• Binary opposite

• Climax

• Disruption

• Equilibrium

What normal life looks like at the start of the narrative for the main character

• Disequilibrium

• Equilibrium

• Disruption

• Resolution

When the protagonist sets out on a quest to undo the disruption

• Need

• Quest

• Disruption

• Attempt to repair

Obstacles which get in the way of the protagonist's quest to resolve the main problem

• Dsiruption

• Equilibrium

• Complication

• Resolution

The character (and audience)'s time to process the ending as good or tragic

• Binary opposite

• Disequilibrium

• Climax

• Resolution

The moment when the villain appears to have won and the protagonist loses all hope

• Climax

• Point of no return

• Resolution

• Disequilibrium

A villain whose qualities are often the exact match for the protagonist's weaknesses

• Disruption

• Disequilibrium

• Binary opposite

• What if...?

The main problem with the protagonist's character which stops them growing

• Character's flaw

• Character's need

• Character's desire

• Binary opposite