The way stories work is not as simple as Orson Scott Card’s view. I can’t do justice to it in a blog comment, but read ‘The Seven Basic Plots’ by Christopher Booker for the first accurate, comprehensive theory of the subject.
Yes. Clearly no one would enjoy a story where someone is just continuously tortured without change.
You have clearly never heard of “ero-guro” manga—you are, in fact, describing a specific subgenre of it.
The way stories work is not as simple as Orson Scott Card’s view. I can’t do justice to it in a blog comment, but read ‘The Seven Basic Plots’ by Christopher Booker for the first accurate, comprehensive theory of the subject.
Yes. Clearly no one would enjoy a story where someone is just continuously tortured without change.
You have clearly never heard of “ero-guro” manga—you are, in fact, describing a specific subgenre of it.