New Study Declares There are Only Six Story Plots

 find this study to be very interesting, especially when one considers it in terms of the Bible. In Genesis, for example, we can definitely see the Fal-Rise-Fall theme, with most of the stories alternating between good and bad.

The six plots are:

"Fall-rise-fall: 'Oedipus Rex', 'The Wonder Book of Bible Stories', 'A Hero of Our Time' and 'The Serpent River'.

Rise-fall: 'Stories from Hans Andersen', 'The Rome Express', 'How to Read Human Nature' and 'The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali'.

Fall-rise: 'The Magic of Oz', 'Teddy Bears', 'The Autobiography of St. Ignatius' and 'Typhoon'.

Steady fall: 'Romeo and Juliet', 'The House of the Vampire', 'Savrola' and 'The Dance'.

Steady rise: 'Alice's Adventures Underground', 'Dream', 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' and 'The Human Comedy'.

Rise-fall-rise: 'Cinderella', 'A Christmas Carol', 'Sophist' and 'The Consolation of Philosophy'. 

The most popular stories have been found to follow the 'fall-rise-fall' and 'rise-fall' arcs."

We may have to examine this more closely in terms of the Genesis stories.