In his 1995 lecture, American novelist Kurt Vonnegut drew various plots on the board, illustrating the protagonist’s change of position on the “good-bad” scale along the way. Among the plots were “the cornered man”, in which the main character gets into trouble and ends up getting out of it. As well as “a guy gets a girl”, where the hero gets something wonderful, loses it and finds it in the back. finish.

There is no obstacle to downloading simple story forms to a computer. They are wonderful shapes.

Thanks to new mining technologies, people have solved this problem. Professor Matthew Jokers of the University of Washington, then researchers at the Laboratory of Computer History at the University of Vermont, analyzed the texts of thousands of novels and identified six main types of stories – the archetypes – which are the building blocks for building more complex plots. Vermont researchers described these six forms of storytelling underlying 1,700 English novels as follows:

1. “From rags to riches” – a gradual improvement in the situation from evil to good.
2. “From wealth to rags” – a fall from a good position to a bad one, a tragedy.
3. Icarus – ascent and descent.
4. “Oedipus” – fall, rise and fall.
5. “Cinderella” – to go up, to fall, to get up.
6. “The Cornered Man” – the fall and the rise.

The researchers used emotional color analysis, a statistical technique often used by marketers to assess social media posts. Within its framework, certain “tone points” are assigned to each word on the crowdsourcing database. Depending on the vocabulary chosen, the word falls into the category of positive (“happiness”) or negative (“sadness”), or it can be associated with one of the eight other ambiguous emotions, such as fear, joy, surprise or anticipation.

For example, the adjective “happy” has a positive connotation and is associated with joy, confidence and anticipation, while the verb “to eradicate” has a negative connotation and is associated with anger.