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Technology: Grief Releaser

A plot technology that “abandons the usual forward momentum of plots in favor of a drifting, eddying, dilating story that provides us with time to acknowledge our heartache and dwell upon memories of our loved ones lost” (Fletcher 138).

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Hamlet
Experience: Acceptance of Loss
Narrative Technology: Grief Releaser
In Act 2, the plot stops while actors put on a play (and it repeatedly stops as unexpected events unfold).
Contributed by: angusif
January 8, 2025
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