3. Acts
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Acts
Dividing a story into acts is one way of marking the large turns in its movement. A three-act model frames the whole drama as a journey from an initial state, through opposition, to a resolved new order.
- Thesis — a status quo is observed, presented, represented, or hypothesized.
- Antithesis — an opposition emerges, pushing against that status quo.
- Synthesis — the inevitable reconciliation: the clash of perspectives transforms the world that began the play.