All Stories Fall Into One Of Six Categories

booksResearchers at the University of Vermont have concluded that all books fall into one of the six following emotional categories:

“Rags to riches”: Steady rise
“Riches to rags” or “Tragedy”: Steady Fall
“Man in a hole”: Fall-Rise
“Icarus”: Rise-Fall
“Cinderella”: Rise-Fall-Rise
“Oedipus”: Fall-Rise-Fall

So, now you know Oedipus is more than just a story about a dude who wanted to sleep with his mom.

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