Deconstruction: Difference between revisions

 

[[Reconstruction]] is when the trope is then put back together, usually in a way that strengthens the trope. Think of it as Deconstruction taking apart your broken car engine, and Reconstruction puts it back together so it runs again. Deconstruction and reconstruction can become [[Cyclic Trope]]s. A set of conventions is established (the initial "construction" of the genre or ideas that are used in the story), this set of conventions is played straight until some author gets bored or frustrated with the implications the fantasy brings and decides to show us the unworkability of these conventions via a deconstruction of them. Atop the ruins, a more realistic narrative (i.e. one that accepts the criticisms of the earlier deconstruction) is then built via reconstruction, and in the future, this narrative gets deconstructed, etc. Cycles of deconstruction and reconstruction are basically how a genre or a trope evolves.

 

We have many subtropes; most examples of '''Deconstruction''' will fit in one of those.

 

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[[Category:Lit Class Tropes]]

[[Category:Older Than Feudalism]]

[[Category:Depressing Tropes]]

[[Category:Post Modern Tropes]]