The secret of the wings3/18/2024 ![]() ![]() Written down, fairy tales, medieval romances, traditional narratives of all sorts have the same feel–flattened, opaque, and almost indecently direct. But that seamless link of incident and inner life–that has nothing to do with them.Īt least not on the printed page. They all have traits they all wear a human face. Neither is Robin Hood or Cinderella or even King Arthur before Tennyson got his hands on him. Oedipus isn’t a character in that modern sense. Which isn’t to say we haven’t seen it broken time and time again. But this character business–the motivation, the psychology, the three-dimensionality–that’s just modern, Western habit, a trick we’ve gotten so good at that we tend to make it the centerpiece of story telling: plot arises out of character character is elucidated by plot. Oh, you need someone to carry out the action, someone to kill the dragon or steal the secret formula, someone to live happily ever after or get run over by a truck. You don’t really need characters to tell a story. THE SECRET IN THE WINGS: A FAIRY TALE SHOW ![]()
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