Answering the Question 3: The Importance of Binary Oppositions

There can be no Drama without conflict, and those conflicts are usually between two opposite things: male vs female, young vs old, rich vs poor etc. These are called binary oppositions (BINARY = two things).

Ask yourself: which characters in the extract seem to be the main participants in this conflict?

This will help you to avoid spending too much time writing about minor characters.

For more notes and an explanation of the theory of binary oppositions, go HERE.