Peripeteia

As a denouement (. AltGr: περιπέτεια: " sudden envelope, unexpected misfortune / fortune ", in the drama " by sudden envelope caused denouement " ) refers to a turning of happiness / unhappiness or the decisive turning point in the destiny of a people.

The denouement is used as a term of the theory of tragedy in Aristotle 's Poetics for the first time. The denouement is a particular type of change -of-action. The occurrence of a denouement is a feature of the best, most effective form of tragedy. The term is then expanded to other genres than the tragedy. Denouement in this broad sense is a reversal of the action, making the disaster or the solution of the problem is initiated. The change should aim to have resulted from the action itself, not of supernatural origin and does not come from outside.

In the classic, structured in five acts spectacle ( usually drama), the denouement is usually content of the third act, in Dreiaktern it occurs at the end of the second or beginning of the third act. She represents the climax and thus the general expression within the plot, in the beginning to those formed in the first two acts to solve problems. In Schiller's The Robbers the idyllic scene on the Danube ( Scene 2, Act 3 ) is called the denouement in the Karl- action since he first sees there the meaningfulness of his revolution against the existing social structures behind the love for Amalia. Particularly strong effect unfolds the denouement, when it is combined with a Anagnorisis, the sudden recognition of a person or a situation.

Paul Heyse defined the turning point as so-called Falk motif as an essential feature of each amendment.

The film is called this concept as a plot point.