PLOT post

While the plot is essentially what happens in a narrative, there is not always a similar approach to revealing plot, especially in a fiction vs. a drama.  First, it is important to notice the plot scheme in Pride & Prejudice, and then compare and contrast it to that of Hamlet.  First, the exposition in Pride & Prejudice is different from that of Hamlet.  In P&P, Austen utilizes different methods of introduction, like show to tell, to provide background information.  However, the exposition in P&P is different from that of Hamlet because of Shakespeare's ability to set up the exposition strictly through characters.  In Hamlet, there is not one narrator who narrates the whole play; rather, there are multiple characters who offer insight to the future and into the past through their diction and conversation.  While both Hamlet and P&P are different because they do not share exposition methods, they are alike because of both Austen and Shakespeare's abilities to offer insight and foreshadowing that lead up to the climax of the play, or the problems.  For example, in P&P Austen employs the use of Elizabeth in order to express problems that others are having such as Darcy while in Hamlet, Shakespeare also builds up the rising action through other characters and events that do not always correspond directly to the protagonist.  P&P and Hamlet are different in their employment of climax.  In Shakespeare, the climax is arguably the last scene, when Hamlet and the others die.  This scene was different than the climax in P&P because is was tragic, and detrimental to the protagonist; however, because the climax in P&P is Darcy's proposal to Elizabeth which is a happy and good scene for the protagonist.  On the contrary, the falling action in a fiction is much different than that of a drama.  First, P&P's falling action constituted of the turning point and what followed the proposal; but, in Hamlet, the climax was the last scene because almost everyone died, thus, there was no significant falling action.  Lastly, one of the more crucial factors that P&P and Hamlet contrasted in was the denouement.  In P&P, the denouement unraveled through out the time period of when Darcy proposed, and the end of the book.  The denouement in P&P was more of a "ever after" type that includes the happiness of Elizabeth, and her life long aspirations (and those of her mother) coming true.  However, the denouement in Hamlet expresses a sense of abruptness, that ends with the play's main characters dying.  Though Pride & Prejudice and Hamlet are different (thus have differences) in the sense of a fiction vs. drama, they do share similarities as well in terms  of several of the narrative traits.