Beginning - evil plan
Middle - divvy sidekick mucks it up
End - happy - hero saves the day, villain in jail; good triumphs over evil.
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.
In melodrama, stock characters typically include the virtuous heroine, the noble hero, the villain, and the comic relief. The virtuous heroine often finds herself in peril, while the noble hero strives to rescue her. The villain embodies evil and creates conflict, and the comic relief provides humor to balance the intense emotions of the plot. These archetypes are exaggerated and serve to evoke strong emotional responses from the audience.
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.
You would have: Villian Hero Heroine Loveable Rogue Elderly Parent
hero, damsal, villian, sidekick
A melodrama is a play or film in which the plot is often sensational and the characters may display exaggerated emotion. Anjelica Huston's 1999 film, Agnes Browne, is an example of a melodrama.
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.
Stock character- stereo typical characters you would expect to see in a play such as: hero,heroine,villian,sidekick etc.
what does music have to do with melodrama
Melodrama characters are never lifelike. They are exaggerated.