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Falling action

The Falling action is the part of a story, usually found in tragedies

Tragedy

Tragedy is a form of The arts based on human suffering that offers its audience pleasure. While most cultures have developed forms that provoke this paradoxical response, tragedy refers to a specific Poetic tradition of drama that has played a unique and important role historically in the self-definition of Western culture....
and short stories

Short story

The short story refers to a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, usually in narrative format. This format or medium tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels or books....
, following the climax

Climax (narrative)

The climax or turning point of a narrative work is its point of highest tension or drama in which the solution is given....
and showing the effects of the climax. It leads up to the denouement

Denouement

In literature, a d?nouement consists of a series of events that follow the climax of a drama or narrative, and thus serves as the conclusion of the story....
(or catastrophe

Catastrophe (drama)

In drama, particularly the tragedies of classical antiquity, the catastrophe is the final resolution in a poem or narrative plot, which unravels the intrigue and brings the piece to a close....
).

is Poetics the Greek

Ancient Greece

The term Ancient Greece refers to the period of History of Greece lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1100 BC and the Dorian invasion, to 146 BC and the Roman Republic conquest of Greece after the Battle of Corinth ....
philosopher Aristotle

Aristotle

Aristotle was a Greeks philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, Poetics , theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology....
put forth the idea that "'???? de est?? t? e??? a???? ?a? µes?? ?a? te?e?t??" (1450b27) ("A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end"(1450b27)).

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The Falling action is the part of a story, usually found in tragedies

Tragedy

Short story

Climax (narrative)

Denouement

In literature, a d?nouement consists of a series of events that follow the climax of a drama or narrative, and thus serves as the conclusion of the story....
(or catastrophe

Catastrophe (drama)

History

In his Poetics the Greek

Ancient Greece

Aristotle

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
playwright and novelist Gustav Freytag

Gustav Freytag

Gustav Freytag was a Germany dramatist and novelist....
wrote Die Technik des Dramas. In it, he laid out what has come to be known as Freytag's pyramid

Dramatic structure

Dramatic structure is the plot structure of a dramatic work such as a Play or screenplay. Many scholars have analyzed dramatic structure, beginning with Aristotle in his Poetics ....
. Under Freytag's pyramid, the plot of a story consists of five parts: exposition

Exposition

Exposition may refer to*Exposition , a different type of Dramatic structure#Exposition in which undepicted plots elements are conveyed in dialogue, description, flashback or narrative...
, rising action

Rising action

The Rising action, in the narratology of a work of fiction, follows the exposition and leads up to the Climax . The rising action's purpose is usually to build suspense all the way up the climactic finish....
, climax

Climax (narrative)

The climax or turning point of a narrative work is its point of highest tension or drama in which the solution is given....
, falling action, and revelation

Revelation

Revelation is the act of revealing or disclosing, or making something obvious and clearly understood through active or passive communication with the divinity....
/catastrophe

Catastrophe (drama)

Climax (narrative)

The climax or turning point of a narrative work is its point of highest tension or drama in which the solution is given....
. Therefore, it deals with the effects that the climax has on the characters. For instance, in Oedipus Rex
Oedipus the King

Oedipus the King is an Classical Athens tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. 429 B.C.E. It was the second of Sophocles' three Theban plays to be produced, but it comes first in the internal chronology, followed by Oedipus at Colonus and then Antigone ....
, by the Greek playwright Sophocles

Sophocles

Sophocles was the second of the three classical Greece tragedy whose work has survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus and earlier than those of Euripides....
, the climax comes when Oedipus

Oedipus

Oedipus was a Greek mythology monarch of Thebes, Greece. He fulfilled a prophecy that said he would kill his father and marry his mother, and thus brought disaster on his city and family....
realizes that the man he killed was his father, Laius

Laius

In Greek mythology, King Laius, or Laios of Thebes was a divine hero and key personage in the Theban founding myth. Son of Labdacus, he was raised by the regent Lycus after the death of his father....
, and the woman he married was his mother, Jocasta

Jocasta

In Greek mythology, Jocasta, also known as Jocaste , Epikast?, or Iokast? was a daughter of Menoeceus and Queen consort of Thebes, Greece....
. In the falling action, Oedipus and Jocasta deal with this revelation. Jocasta does this by killing herself and Oedipus does this by blinding himself.

In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar (play)

Julius Caesar is a Shakespearean tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599. It portrays the conspiracy against the Roman Empire dictator Julius Caesar, his assassination and its aftermath....
, the climax is the assassination of Caesar

Julius Caesar

'Gaius Julius Caesar' , July 13, 100 BC ? March 15, 44 BC,) was a Roman Republic military and political leader. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....
. After that, the falling action is the attempts of all Romans

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
to deal with this. In their anger over Caesar's death, the people of Rome mistake Cinna the poet for Cinna

Cinna

Cinna was a Roman Republic patrician family of the gens Cornelius .Prominent members of this family include:*Lucius Cornelius Cinna - Roman consul in 127 BC...
the conspirator. Both the conspirators and the allies of Caesar bicker amongst themselves. The ghost of Caesar appears to Brutus

Marcus Junius Brutus

File:Portrait Brutus Massimo.jpgMarcus Junius Brutus or Quintus Servilius Caepio Brutus, often referred to simply as Brutus, was a Roman Senate of the late Roman Republic....
.

Falling action

History

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