In this phase, the villain has the upper hand. It seems that evil will triumph. The protagonist has never been further from accomplishing the
goal. For Freytag, this is true both in tragedies and comedies, because both of these types of plots classically show good winning over evil. The
question is which side the protagonist has put himself on, and this may not
be immediately clear to the audience.
2.2.5 Resolution
The fifth and final part of a plot is the resolution, which essentially is the end of the story. At this point all of the problems that the characters
faced throughout the story are worked out and the story is concluded. The resolution, also often called denouement, which is French for to
untie or unraveling, is the conclusion of the story. Here, the conflicts are resolved, all loose ends are tied up, and the story concludes with
either a happy or sad ending.
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3. PLOT ANALYSIS OF THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES 3.1 The Analysis of Exposition
Exposition refers to the opening information in a literary piece. It also refers to the introduction of the theme in a piece of literature. Basically the reader gets
much needed information about the work from the exposition usually given at the beginning to set the stage for the work.
This stage is the opening of the story, providing the initial information and others, mainly to support the story that will
be told in the next stage. Here is an early stage of the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle relates to the exposition. In the morning hours of a day in 1889, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson awake to discover that a visitor had been
to their apartment the previous night but departed before seeing either man. However, he left behind a walking stick. The walking stick bears the inscription:
To James Mortimer, M.R.C.S., from his friends of the C.C.H. This allows the two to begin making some deductions about his character and occupation using
Holmes’s methods. Watson describes a likeable old country doctor who received the stick from
a local hunt, a theory that Holmes has several objections to. He argues instead for the case of a young practitioner presented with the stick when he left London’s
Charing Cross Hospital C.C.H. to move to the country. Watson checks on some of the details and, with the appearance of the curly-haired spaniel whose teeth
marks are imprinted on the cane, followed shortly by his owner, James Mortimer,
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