With a Dramatica storyform, it’s never about what the characters “need” or what they “should” do, or what they “learn”. It’s always what is. What is the conflict? Where is the trouble? Where is the inequity?
A Concern of Learning requires struggle in the actual process of acquiring or gathering information. I always think of going to school and the conflict experienced while learning:
- you have tests to pass and pop-quizzes to survive. Those are the Prerequisites
- you have lesson plans which conflict with your plans to get every class covered. That is Strategy
- you have progress reports and parent/teacher conferences. That’s putting up with Analysis
- you have cliques, ASB, rallies, and fund-raisers - those are Preconditions
Dramatica is about the education process, not about the students.