Where does Sargent (1916) put the crisis and the climax relative to the end of a photoplay, and how does his end-of-suspense definition compare, by candidate ID, with Aristotle's turning point (Butcher), Phillips (1914), Archer (1912) and other stakes/suspense rows?
Sargent defines the climax by what ends suspense about the object, not by a turn of fortune, and places it at or as near the end as possible, with crises ascending before it. Compared by candidate ID: Aristotle (relayed) marks a division at the turning point and gives no proportions; Phillips (relayed) agrees on a single-scene climax and brief conclusion; Archer (relayed) reports a stage norm Sargent rejects. The same outline can therefore have two different key beats, a suspense-end beat and a fortune-turn beat (my synthesis). The comparison rests on relayed summaries and is untested; no source gives a decision rule for when they coincide.
Sargent defines the climax by what ends suspense about the object, not by a turn of fortune, and places it at or as near the end as possible, with crises ascending before it. Compared by candidate ID: Aristotle (relayed) marks a division at the turning point and gives no proportions; Phillips (relayed) agrees on a single-scene climax and brief conclusion; Archer (relayed) reports a stage norm Sargent rejects. The same outline can therefore have two different key beats, a suspense-end beat and a fortune-turn beat (my synthesis). The comparison rests on relayed summaries and is untested; no source gives a decision rule for when they coincide.
Curator qualifications: Struggle/suspense/crisis/climax/anti-climax rules verified as Sargent claims, with examples labelled; relayed Aristotle/Phillips/Archer comparison is by candidate ID (relayed rows, not re-read); -07 agent check and L10 experiment are proposals, untested.
Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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- [sourced_fact] Sargent defines the climax by what ends suspense about the object, not by a turn of fortune, and places it at or as near the end as possible, with crises ascending before it. Compared by candidate ID: Aristotle (relayed) marks a division at the turning point and gives no proportions; Phillips (relayed) agrees on a single-scene climax and brief conclusion; Archer (relayed) reports a stage norm Sargent rejects. The same outline can therefore have two different key beats, a suspense-end beat and a fortune-turn beat (my synthesis). The comparison rests on relayed summaries and is untested; no source gives a decision rule for when they coincide. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate source
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