The Fall as Booker’s Seven Basic Plots Analysis: None Plot

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Scholars have had a lot to say about the plot structuring of the novel. We’ve read everything from a super-cool theory that the plot is circular – like the canals of Amsterdam or Dante’s hell – with a series of ripples coming out from the center (the incident on the bridge, which is literally at the center of the novel), to a paper arguing that Jean-Baptiste’s five monologues are a polyptych, a series of panels constituting a whole, just like the van Eyck painting. The point is, to pick one of Booker’s Seven Basic Plots for this book wouldn’t be possible or even helpful in terms of analyzing The Fall.