Dramatica Theory Book
Chapter
24: Storytelling and Storyforming Structural Appreciations (Cont.)
Dynamic Pairs of
Domains
Each of the throughlines in a story can be seen as standing alone or as
standing in relation to the other throughlines. When selecting which Classes
to assign the throughlines of your story, it is extremely important to
remember two relationships in particular among the throughlines:
The Objective
Story and Subjective Story throughlines
will always be a dynamic pair
And...
The Main Character
and Obstacle Character throughlines
will always be a dynamic pair
These relationships
reflect the kind of impact these throughlines have on each other in every
story. The Main and Obstacle Characters face off throughout the story
until one of them Changes (indicated by the Main Character Resolve). Their
relationship in the Subjective Story will help precipitate either Success
or Failure in the Objective Story (indicated by the Story Outcome).
What these relationships mean to the process of building the Domains in
your story is that whenever you set up one Domain, you also set up
its dynamic pair.
For example, matching the Main Character throughline with the Universe
class not only creates a Main Character Domain of Universe in your story,
it also creates an Obstacle Character Domain of Mind. Since Mind is the
dynamic pair to Universe in the Dramatica structure, matching one throughline
to one of the Classes automatically puts the other throughline on the
opposite Class to support the two throughlines' dynamic pair relationship.
Likewise, matching the Objective Story throughline with Psychology to
create an Objective Story Domain of Psychology will automatically create
a Subjective Story Domain of Physics at the same time. The reasoning is
the same here as it was for the Main and Obstacle Character throughlines.
No matter which Class you match with one of the throughlines on the Dramatica
structure, the dynamic pair of that class will be matched to the dynamic
pair of that throughline.
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