FAIRY TALES AND SCRIPT DRAMA ANALYSIS - （童话故事和戏剧脚本分析-）.pdf

FAIRY TALES AND SCRIPT DRAMA ANALYSIS Stephen B. Karpman, M.D. Fairy tales help inculcate the norms of society into young minds consciously, but subconsciously may provide an attractive stereotyped number of roles, locations, and timetables for an errant life script. To date, the scientific structural analysis of scripts has been based on the Script Matrix (See Steiner, TAB April 1966). In this paper I will present some diagrams for drama analysis of the script, using familiar examples from well known fairy tales. Drama can be analyzed as switches in role and location on a time continuum. The intensity of the drama is influenced by the number of switches in a time period (Script Velocity) and the contrast between the positions switched (Script Range). Low velocity or range is boredom. The time for each switch varies independently, from surprise through suspense. 1. ROLE DIAGRAM. As ego state analysis is part of structural and trans- actional analysis, role analysis is part of game and script analysis, in defining the identities involved in the action. The slogan-identity on a man’s “sweatshirt” usually represents the slogan of his script role. With this slogan it can be ascertained, often with a direct question, what role he is playing in life. A person “living in a fairy tale” usually has a simplified view of the world with a minimum of dramatic characters. The role diagram provides a means of fixing this set number of key identities visually in therapy. When a person knows his “favorite fairy tale” the key roles can be listed in a circle and from there the life roles can be fit. Less often this is worked in reverse, and the classic story found that fits the roles. This vividness and imagery in circumscribing the action has a usefulness similar to game analysis. The arrows in the diagram indicate not s