(Post 3) 3 Act Structure



The three-act structure is a model used in narrative fiction that divides a story into three parts (acts), often called the Setup, the Confrontation and the Resolution.


This is essentially the "beginning, middle and end" of a story, a conventional narrative.




For example, in "The Arrival", the introduction is the woman sitting down and ordering a coffee, the confrontation is her establishing to the audience that she is pregnant and then debating with herself through self narrative in that if she want's to keep the baby or not, while also wondering where the man she conceived with is. And the resolution is her, not explicitly saying that she want's to keep the baby, but heavily suggests it while her date arrives. 

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