Archive: Story Experiences

Sense and Sensibility
Experience: Generous Love
Narrative Technology: Free Indirect Discourse
"The prospect of four thousand a-year, in addition to his present income, besides the remaining half of his own mother's fortune […] He thought of it all day long, and for many days successively, and he did not repent" (177).
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
The Canterbury Tales
Experience: Generous Love
Narrative Technology: Free Indirect Discourse
"A monk there was, a mighty one,/Who rode about and loved to hunt./Why should he scramble his brains all night,/Poring over dry and dusty sermons?/Why toil with his hands as Augustine bid?/How then would the world be served?/Let Augustine have his work for him reserved!/And so he rode his horses hard."
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
The Blacks: A Clown Show
Experience: Existential Nausea
Narrative Technology: Narrative without Core Values
"The play began with a group of blacks who reenacted the crime of murdering a white. After which the reenactors turned to a jury of blacks in whiteface--and sentenced them to death" (Fletcher 333).
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
Frankenstein
Experience: Eustress
Narrative Technology: Meta-Horror
"My rage returned: I remembered that I was for ever deprived of the delights that such beautiful creatures could bestow...I only wonder that at that moment, instead of venting my sensations in exclamations and agony, I did not rush among mankind, and perish in the attempt to destroy them."
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
The Life of Jesus
Experience: Empowerment
Narrative Technology: Logic
Strauss makes the claim that Christ's life was a fiction.
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
The Essence of Christianity
Experience: Empowerment
Narrative Technology: Logic
Feuerbach makes the claim that God is a fiction: "Think, therefore, with every morsel of bread which relieves thee from the pain of hunger, with every draught of wine which cheers thy heart, of the God who confers these beneficent gifts upon thee,--think of man!"
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
Jude the Obscure
Experience: Empathy
Narrative Technology: Hamartia
The child who feels guilty for being a burden to his parents and tries to solve the problem himself
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
Anne of Green Gables
Experience: Empathy
Narrative Technology: Hamartia
Anne regrets telling Gilbert she'll never be friends with him
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
Little Women
Experience: Empathy
Narrative Technology: Hamartia
Jo March regrets accidentally burning Meg's hair
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
Sister Carrie
Experience: Empathy
Narrative Technology: Hamartia
George Hurstwood repents his drunken decision to embezzle
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025