Episode ( Greek ἐπεισόδιον - inset [1] ):
- Separate small event, incident.
- Part of the plot of a literary work or film , which has an independent narrative meaning. The episode is associated with the main theme of the essay, but is completed in itself and can be highlighted as a separate story.
- A brief appearance in the film, cartoon, a fairy tale.
- Very much of a movie or cartoon
Examples
Of the famous classic episodes that glorified the works that concluded them, the farewell of Hector and Andromache and the funeral of Patroclus in the Iliad , the story of the Trojan Horse or the friendship of Nys and Evrial in Aeneid , the meetings with Ugolino and Francesco Rimini in The Divine Comedy , Armida Gardens in “ Freed Jerusalem ”.
The modern meaning of the term “episode” has largely lost its certainty; however, the usual usage of words makes it possible to call the episode, for example, Marmeladov's story in Dostoevsky 's Crime and Punishment , the notes of the elder Zosima in The Brothers Karamazov , the visit of young people to Fomushka and Fimushka in Novi by Turgenev , the Onegin's journey around Russia in Yevgenia Onegin and t. n.
A drama strictly subordinated to the law of continuous development does not give a place for an episode, but they are possible in the comedy of mores , where they slow down the action, but contribute to the characterization of the situation. All the episodes consisted of plays, called in French pièces a tiroir , devoid of intrigue and composed of alternating and weakly linked episodes.
In the eight-part film " Star Wars " "episodes" are called separate series.
Notes
- ↑ Soviet Encyclopedic Dictionary / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 4th ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1988. - 1600 p.
Gornfeld A.G. ,. Episode // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : 86 t. (82 t. And 4 extra.). - SPb. , 1890-1907.