Denouement Reading (MS Conservatory)

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The word denouement comes from the Latin word desnouer, which means “to untie.”

In the final line of Animal Farm, the other animals cannot distinguish between the pigs and their original oppressors, showing that they have become one and the same.

Only in some modern stories is there no real denouement.

The climax of World War II was...

The denouement of a story occurs just after the inciting incident and is the final moment in which there is resolution for any remaining conflicts in the plot.

Most works of nonfiction and drama include a denouement as a way of wrapping up the story and providing a conclusion, whether or not it is ambiguous.

It is also a return to normalcy for the characters, though there may be a “new normal” after the intricacies of the plot have occurred and been revealed.

While many have taken the Life of Pi at face-value that Pi Patel survived a shipwreck on a lifeboat with a Bengal lion, the final line of the novel casts some doubt on whether this unlikely survival story could really have happened.