A comparison of plot and its effect in "Antigone" by Anouilh, and "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Solzhenitsyn.

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A comparison of plot and its effect in "Antigone" by Anouilh, and "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Solzhenitsyn.

Candidate Name: Irkab Demha

Candidate Number: 000885 005

Naseem International School

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Plot is the essential arrangement of story elements and events to create significance and extend the meaning of a story. The plot draws the reader into the protagonist's life and helps the reader understand the choices that the characters make. Writers vary plot structure depending on the needs of the story. In Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and Anouilh'sAntigone, the plots have similar aspects like time scope and dissimilar aspects like pace. Each author deliberately structures his plot to create a desired effect.

A similarity between the two texts is that the events of each take place during the span of one day. The play of Antigone starts in the early morning when Antigone returns from her midnight walk. It ends after a series of long events towards the end of the day as Creon states with relief, "It's been a hard day.