This is an exercise page, with examples of how narrative analysis using Aristotle’s elements and other methods might be applied to specific cases. This might be a good page to use for classroom assignments. Our first example, below, uses a radio play (which, not coincidentally, was written by the author of these pages). You should
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After returning from Bulgaria I became interested in the popular history of communism in films from both the West and the East. Communist culture was both far worse than I imagined, and, in some respects (notably, its educational system), far more sophisticated and enlightened than I imagined. The present list does not do justice to
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