What are the three elements of a novel? What's the role?

Three elements of a novel: characters, plot and environment.

Function:

1, person

Taking one person or several people as the main line and time as the sequence, it reflects the value relations of various roles in social life in a very detailed and comprehensive way, and shows the interaction of various value relations in a very detailed and comprehensive way.

Step 2 plot

The novel mainly shows the character and performance center through stories. The story comes from life, but after sorting, refining and arranging, it is more concentrated, complete and representative than the real cases in real life.

3. Environmental nature

The description of the environment and the characterization of the novel have an extremely important relationship with the central idea. In the description of environment, social environment is the key point, which reveals all kinds of complex social relations, such as identity, status, historical background of growth and so on.

The natural environment includes place, time, season, climate, scenery and so on. The description of natural environment plays an important role in expressing characters' emotions and rendering the environmental atmosphere.

Extended data:

Character, plot and environment are the three elements of a novel. The plot generally includes four parts: beginning, development, climax and ending, and some also include prologue and ending. Environment includes natural environment and social environment.

Novel classification:

1. According to the length and capacity, it can be divided into novels, novellas, short stories and mini-novels (short stories).

2. According to the performance content, it can be divided into myth, Xian Xia, martial arts, science fiction, suspense, ancient legend, contemporary, romantic youth, game competition and so on.

3. According to the system, it can be divided into chapter novels, diary novels, epistolary novels and autobiographical novels.

4. According to the language form, it can be divided into classical Chinese novels and vernacular novels.

Novel is the most important carrier of modern and contemporary literature, and it is also a kind of cultural consumer goods. Therefore, the development of novels is not only influenced by changes in literary concepts and creative skills, but also by changes in communication methods and consumption habits.

From Oracle Bone Inscriptions, to the history of silk slips, to the poems of Tang and Song Dynasties, novels of Ming and Qing Dynasties, to modern novels and online literature, every progress of human science and technology and every evolution of communication carriers are changing the form of literature and affecting the development of novels.

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