Structural Analysis

1. Protocol Fiction Mapping (Summer of Protocols)#

• Render a Rule: The Intertidal Property Pricing Index—how global finance abstracts and profits off the disaster of a flooded, ruined city.
• Rehearse a Failure Mode: The financial system is completely detached from the physical reality of the water; it will happily drown a million people if the algorithm dictates it.
• Reveal a Human Insight: Financial markets are just collective hallucinations; they can be broken if enough people simply refuse to pay the rent simultaneously.

2. Actantial Model (A.J. Greimas)#

• Mapping pending standard analysis.

3. Todorov's Equilibrium Model#

• Mapping pending standard analysis.

4. The Freytag Pyramid#

• Exposition: Flooded NYC. Climax: The rent strike.

5. Propp's Morphology of the Folktale#

• Narratemes: Heroes band together.

6. Genette's Narrative Discourse#

• Order: Multi-POV.

7. The Monomyth / Hero's Journey#

• Subversions: Return is a new economy.

8. Dan Harmon's Story Circle#

• The Take: Financial security.

9. Save the Cat! Beat Sheet#

• Pacing: Catalyst: Coders kidnapped.

10. Kishōtenketsu (Four-Act Structure)#

• Applicability: Low.

11. The Three-Act Structure#

• Plot Points: PP1: Investigating buyout. PP2: Market crash.

Jungian Archetypal Analysis

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