Egri suggests that compromise is impossible between the main characters driving the story. Characters duel until death. United to destroy each other. Bound together. But the death is actually a transformation. A loss of equilibrium. But then the character needs to seek a new equilibrium. After you have found your premise, you had better find out immediately--testing if necessary--whether the characters have the unity of opposites between them. If they do not have this STRONG, UNBREAKABLE BOND between them, your conflict will never rise to a climax.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Unity of Opposites
Egri suggests that compromise is impossible between the main characters driving the story. Characters duel until death. United to destroy each other. Bound together. But the death is actually a transformation. A loss of equilibrium. But then the character needs to seek a new equilibrium. After you have found your premise, you had better find out immediately--testing if necessary--whether the characters have the unity of opposites between them. If they do not have this STRONG, UNBREAKABLE BOND between them, your conflict will never rise to a climax.
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