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Anonymous Tue May 5 23:13:48 2015 No.6501439 [Reply] [Original]

If Shakespeare's plots are bad, what's an example of good plot? What's the work of fiction with the best plot?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 5 23:15:50 2015 No.6501451 What kind of deranged plebeian reads for plot?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 5 23:17:32 2015 No.6501461 His plots weren't bad don't take the memes seriously. Next to his prose they were mediocre but objectively they're pretty good.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 5 23:17:36 2015 No.6501462 >>6501439 Dan Brown

>>	Anonymous Tue May 5 23:18:32 2015 No.6501466 >>6501439 >What's the work of fiction with the best plot? The Count of Monte Cristo.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 5 23:19:53 2015 No.6501475 Best plotting I've read in a novel is The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 5 23:23:42 2015 No.6501492 >>6501461 >His plots weren't bad don't take the memes seriously. >Next to his prose they were mediocre but objectively they're pretty good. Shakespeare literally has everyone die at the end of Hamlet for absolutely no reason other than "lol tragedy".

>>	Anonymous Tue May 5 23:37:43 2015 No.6501559 >>6501451 The kind that aren't autistic try hards like you faggot.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 5 23:38:36 2015 No.6501564 >>6501492 Not at all. This is the kind of reading I expect from a middle schooler.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 5 23:39:37 2015 No.6501569 >>6501439 All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 00:29:20 2015 No.6501767 >>6501439 who is this semen demon?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 00:32:06 2015 No.6501778 >>6501439 who is this glug slug?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 00:35:50 2015 No.6501791 >>6501439 that slut's legs are not shorn

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 00:37:52 2015 No.6501802 who is this mama meme

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 00:40:21 2015 No.6501807 >>6501492 You do realize that death in the end was one of the main characteristics of a tragedy back then, right?

Anonymous Wed May 6 00:40:47 2015 No.6501809

>>6501466
Just picked up an old hardcover copy at the thrift store. I fucking love Dumas. The Three Musketeers is just a grand old time. His books were mostly serialized on first release so the plots had to be good enough to keep people buying the next issue.

>>	ΟΥΤΙΣ Wed May 6 01:16:57 2015 No.6501909 Homer and Greek tragedy are the very best works of plot. The Odyssey and Oedipus, King especially

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 03:58:45 2015 No.6502271 File: 11 KB, 800x150, Prose.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6501451

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 04:06:04 2015 No.6502280 >what's an example of good plot Oedipus the King

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 04:50:14 2015 No.6502365 who is that fluid druid

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 04:52:12 2015 No.6502371 shakespeare has good plots they're just weird

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 06:08:54 2015 No.6502552 >>6501439 Who is this semen demon?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 06:10:34 2015 No.6502559 >>6501461 >Next to his prose Shakespeare didn't write prose, you confederate of dunces.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 06:15:55 2015 No.6502572 >>6502365 ahhaha good one, hadn't heard it before.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 06:18:06 2015 No.6502581 Who is this TREE BITCH?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 06:20:33 2015 No.6502585 >>6502559 Don't turn it into a meme please that's my favourite novel.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 06:22:48 2015 No.6502589 >>6502585 Okay, I won't use that again, but only because you said please and it's a favorite of mine too. Know that if you ever see those words again, they didn't come from me.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 06:23:40 2015 No.6502590 File: 519 B, 32x42, FFVI_Mysidian_Rabbit_Sprite.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] If anybody considers Shakespeare's plots lacking, it's because they don't realize how much pop culture owes to his works.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 06:23:51 2015 No.6502591 >>6501439 Who is this treemen demon?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 06:37:02 2015 No.6502613 >>6501439 Who is this cum drum? Who is this sperm germ? Who is this semen demon? Who is this dairy fairy? Who is this jizz djinn? Who is this spunk monk? Who is this nectar specter?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 06:43:03 2015 No.6502629 >>6502559 When fair is foul and foul is fair, ur wrong lmaoo

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 06:46:01 2015 No.6502634 >>6501439 Who is that Bukake Escapee?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 06:47:15 2015 No.6502638 >>6502634 Who are these prose hoes?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 06:51:15 2015 No.6502644 >>6501439 Who is that shaft blaster 3000?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 07:09:08 2015 No.6502676 >>6502613 who is that spooge stooge ?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 07:13:31 2015 No.6502683 File: 3.52 MB, 1280x720, cmplayer-snapshot-2015-02-03-01-03-50-758.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6502613 >not spunk seraphim

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 07:22:46 2015 No.6502691 >>6501809 Everyone wrote that way back then

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 07:23:46 2015 No.6502693 >>6501791 Neither are yours

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 07:24:58 2015 No.6502694 >>6502691 Yeah, sometimes it really kind of shocks me. Like, Kant's now-famous essay "Was ist Aufklärung?" was first published in a literary magazine. I can't imagine that sort of thing happening today, but maybe I don't know any good magazines.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 07:26:24 2015 No.6502695 >>6501791 Shorn? Do women shear their legs now?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 07:35:44 2015 No.6502704 Who is this sausage sorcerer?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 07:49:11 2015 No.6502724 >>6501439 Who is this humdrum cumbum?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 07:56:43 2015 No.6502737 Classic "posting a picture more interesting than the thread"

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 08:03:31 2015 No.6502747 >>6501492 Congratulations you've triggered me. I have to leave /lit/ now. I may come back when summer's over. I guess I should thank you but I can't seem to let myself type the words.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 08:13:25 2015 No.6502767 >>6501439 Who is this genital receptacle?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 08:16:15 2015 No.6502772 >>6501909 this tbh, nothing beats the consistency and simplicity of Oedipus Rex

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 08:18:58 2015 No.6502779 >>6502694 Specialized literary maganizes were miniscule.. Ulysses was released in a paper with a circulation of 400. It was a plausible format back then; now, we have journals.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 08:21:25 2015 No.6502782 >>6501439 The Odyssey. Duh.

Anonymous Wed May 6 09:08:39 2015 No.6502897

>>6501439
>>6501451
>>6501492
>taking meme shitposting seriously and regurgitating it in an attempt to be "cool"
People like you are the reason 4chan boards go downhill around four years after their creation.

>>6502590
This. Also read Bloom on Shakespeare if youre still too dense to understand that just because something has been copied numerous times it doesn't mean the original is somehow "generic"
/thread

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 10:14:28 2015 No.6503093 >>6501439 the best book purely for the plot is the murder on the orient express

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 10:21:47 2015 No.6503104 First order of business: the grill is named Mary Volkova. She's a Russian model. Second order of business: OP, what constitutes a good plot?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 10:22:48 2015 No.6503108 File: 85 KB, 560x522, mary volkava.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6503104 Forgot the pic

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 12:01:43 2015 No.6503422 File: 43 KB, 440x316, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6501439

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 12:08:02 2015 No.6503438 >>6501439 His plots were bad because he was too busy legitimizing the English language.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 12:23:12 2015 No.6503500 File: 83 KB, 1280x827, 3SJ05wF.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6503108 Why is Russia such a qt paradise?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 12:41:52 2015 No.6503555 >>6503500 Less nigger-mixing.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 12:46:27 2015 No.6503571 >>6503500 What else do they have going for them?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 12:51:26 2015 No.6503590 >>6503571 A rich tradition of literature?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 13:03:33 2015 No.6503630 >>6503590 I meant currently not historically.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 13:13:08 2015 No.6503653 >>6502613 >not jizz whiz

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 13:25:20 2015 No.6503695 Who is that crimson cream-pie?

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