According to the Dramatica theory the audience sees the story through the MC’s eyes and connects emotionally to the story through the MC, IC and M/I throughlines. However, outside of Dramatica authors also care about their readers connecting to the characters, and not only the MC.
For me these are two different kinds of emotional connection and as far as I understand Dramatica focuses to the emotional connection to the argument of the story. Do you guys also see this difference between the emotional connection to the characters on the one hand and the emotional connection to the story through the subjective throughline on the other?
I’m not sure how to express my struggle. I feel that the emotional connection to the characters is blurring my vision on the story form, I feel like I can’t see the emotional connection to the throughlines because of the emotional connection to the characters.