Internal Genre Elements

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1		Internal Genre Elements Source: Friedman, Norman. “Forms of the Plot,” The Journal of General Education 8, no. 4 (July 1955): 241-53.
2	Internal Genre	Genre	Tank	Realm	Values	Subgenre	Specific Range of Values	Protagonist	Character	Thought	External Circumstance	Protagonist Change	Resulting Action	Ending	Audience Experience	Ending Value at Stake	Cause and Effect Statements

3	Status-Pathetic	Status	Esteem	Fortune	Success / Failure	Pathetic	Success Compromise Failure Selling Out	Sympathetic protagonist	Weak	Too unsophisticated to see the consequences of their actions	Misfortune without the guidance of an adequate mentor	Unable to change in thought or character	Fails to rise in social standing	Negative	Pity	Failure	When a sympathetic protagonist, who has weak character and is too unsophisticated to see the consequences of their actions, experiences misfortune without the guidance of an adequate mentor, they will fail to rise in social standing.
4	Status-Sentimental					Sentimental		Sympathetic protagonist	Steadfast	Not sophisticated	Challenge or opportunity and has a supportive mentor of high moral character	Does not change or changes slightly due to help of their strong mentor	Able to rise in social standing	Postive	Relief	Success	When a sympathetic protagonist, with a steadfast will but naive worldview, encounters a challenge or opportunity and has a supportive mentor of high moral character, he can rise in social standing.
5	Status-Tragic					Tragic		Sympathetic protagonist	Ambitious	Sophisticated enough to see the consequences of their actions	Lacks an adequate mentor and makes a serious mistake in their attempt to rise	Unable to change in thought or character	Tragic fall in social standing, often death	Negative	Pity mixed with a sense of justice	Failure	When a sympathetic protagonist, ambitious and sophisticated enough to see the consequences of their actions, lacks an adequate mentor and makes a serious mistake in their attempt to rise, the result is a tragic fall in social standing, and often death.
6	Status-Admiration					Admiration		Sympathetic protagonist	Nobility of character and motive	Able to adapt worldview with new information	Misfortune	Does not change, maintains their strength of thought/character	Rises in social standing	Postive	Respect and admiration	Success	When a sympathetic protagonist with nobility of character and motive, along with a sophisticated worldview, encounters misfortune they will rise in spite of it.
7	Worldview-Education	Worldview	Self-Actualization	Thought	Understanding / Lack of Understanding	Education	Meaning Cognitive Dissonance Meaninglessness Meaninglessness Masked As Meaning	Sympathetic protagonist	Irrelevant	Naive or cynical	Opportunity or challenge that enlightens them to a broader understanding	Changes their thought for the better	Find meaning in their existing actions	Postive	Relief, satisfaction, and pleasure	Meaning	When a sympathetic protagonist, with a naive or cynical outlook, experiences an opportunity or challenge that enlightens them to a broader understanding, they find new meaning in their existing actions.
8	Worldview-Disillusionment					Disillusionment	Blind Belief Justified Belief Doubt Disillusionment	Sympathetic protagonist	Developed will and positive motives	Wholehearted idealistic beliefs	Experiences a loss or trial that forces them to realize the darker truth	Changes their thought for the worse	Lose their faith entirely	Negative	Pity	Disillusionment	When a sympathetic protagonist, with developed will, positive motives, and wholehearted idealistic beliefs, experiences a loss or trial that forces them to realize the darker truth, they lose their faith entirely.
9	Worldview-Maturation					Maturation	Sophistication Cognitive Dissonance Naivete Naivete Masked As Sophistication	Sympathetic protagonist	Irrelevant	Black-and-white views of the world and mistakenly conceived goals	Loss or trial that shows the world is multi-layered and imperfect	Changes their thought for the better	Chooses better-suited goals	Postive	Relief and righteous satisfaction	Sophistication	When a sympathetic protagonist, with naive black-and-white views of the world and mistakenly conceived goals, experiences a loss or trial that shows them the world is multi-layered and imperfect, they embrace better-suited goals and actions.
10	Worldview-Revelation					Revelation	Wisdom Cognitive Dissonance Ignornance Ignorance Masked as Knowledge	Unspecified protagonist	Well-developed will	Lacking essential facts	Discovers a shocking truth about themselves	Changes their thought for the better	Make wise and appropriate decisions	Postive or Negative	Shock that gives way to satisfaction	Wisdom	When a protagonist, with well-developed will but lacking in essential facts, experiences doubt about their circumstances which leads to a revelation of a shocking truth, they can make wise and appropriate decisions.
11	Morality-Redemption	Morality	Self-Transcendence	Character	Selfishness / Altruism	Redemption	Self-Sacrifice for All Humanity Putting Tribe's Needs Ahead of Self Putting One Person's Needs Ahead of Self Selfishness Selfishness Masked As Altruism	Self-obsessed protagonist	Self-focused motivations/ Well developed will	Sophisticated state of mind	Seemingly impossible challenge	Rediscovers their moral compass	Makes selfless choice for others and is rewarded	Positive	Satisfaction	Altruism	When an unsympathetic protagonist, with strong will and sophisticated state of mind, experiences a seemingly impossible challenge through which they recover their inner moral compass, they make a selfless choice for others and are rewarded.
12	Morality-Punitive					Punitive		Protagonist	Ambitious	Sophisticated state of mind	Receives an opportunity	Betrays their moral compass	Victimizes innocent people and receives due consequences	Negative	Satisfied Vindication	Selfishness	When a protagonist with ambition and sophistication, takes advantage of an opportunity and betrays their moral compass, they victimize innocent people and receive due consequences.
13	Morality-Testing-Triumph					Testing-Triumph		Sympathetic protagonist	Highly developed will	Sophisticated state of mind	Challenge and trial	Maintains to their moral compass	Uses their will with selflessness and gains admiration	Positive	Satisfaction	Altruism	When a protagonist of highly developed will and sophistication experiences a challenge and trial but maintains their inner moral compass and strength of will, they make a selfless choice and earn respect and admiration.
14	Morality-Testing-Surrender					Testing-Surrender		Formerly sympathetic protagonist	Highly developed will	Sophisticated state of mind	Receives an opportunity	Ignores and abandons their moral compass	Uses their will for selfishness and loses admiration	Negative	Pity or Contempt	Selfishness	When a protagonist of highly developed will and sophistication experiences an opportunity and ignores their inner moral code, they may be rewarded externally but will suffer internally.
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