Beginning - evil plan
Middle - divvy sidekick mucks it up
End - happy - hero saves the day, villain in jail; good triumphs over evil.
The stock plot of a melodrama typically involves heightened emotions, moral dilemmas, and conflicts between good and evil characters. The storyline often revolves around themes of love, betrayal, vengeance, and redemption, with clear distinctions between heroes and villains. Melodramas are known for their exaggerated acting and situations designed to evoke strong emotional responses from the audience.
The Victorian stage melodrama featured a limited number of stock characters: the hero, the villain, the heroine, an old man, an old woman, a comic man and a comic woman engaged in a sensational plot featuring themes of love and murder.
The word "melodrama" comes from the Greek words "melos" meaning music and "drama" meaning action or plot.
Melodrama is a dramatic work which exaggerates plot and characters in order to appeal to the emotions. It may also refer to the genre which includes such works, or to language, behavior, or events which resemble them.
hero, damsal, villian, sidekick
You would have: Villian Hero Heroine Loveable Rogue Elderly Parent
One example of a melodrama play is "The Phantom of the Opera" by Andrew Lloyd Webber. This musical tells the tragic love story of a disfigured musical genius who becomes obsessed with a young soprano at the Paris Opera House. The plot is characterized by heightened emotions, dramatic events, and a clear distinction between good and evil characters.
forms of drama are genre. melodrama. plot. setting .comedy. playfilms. stactle.
Because they re use the same stock characters and they all have a general part which they play, so melodrama usually ends with the hero defeating the villain which is a happy ending.
what does music have to do with melodrama
Stock character- stereo typical characters you would expect to see in a play such as: hero,heroine,villian,sidekick etc.
Melodrama characters are never lifelike. They are exaggerated.
Australian Melodrama was created in 1994.