![]() This allegiance means that those events will have emotional consequences for the audience. Major events pointed to in earlier episodes happen to those characters whom the narrative has built audience allegiance with In exploiting and expanding its melodramatic alignment structure, the narrative spends this time deepening familiar charactersĪnd introducing new ones, building audience alignment and allegiance with many of them. The middle books point towards major events, while keeping the narrative in balance. The first books ofĪnd introduce most of its many characters. Transition between Book 15 and Book 16 might not qualify for most as the beginning of the end of the Iliad, īut it is the beginning of the end for Hektor. ![]() ![]() ![]() I discuss how closure works in serial narratives, from proleptic endings to characterĬurtain calls and the resolution of dangling threads, through a close reading and beat analysis of Iliad ![]()
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