Catastrophe vs Denouement - What's the difference?
catastrophe | denouement |
Any large and disastrous event of great significance.
(insurance) A disaster beyond expectations
(narratology) The dramatic event that initiates the resolution of the plot in a tragedy.
(mathematics) A type of bifurcation, where a system shifts between two stable states.
*2005 , Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril :
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(en noun)- The denouement' is the moment when all of the knots of a story are untied, But the ' denouement should not be confused with the end of a story.
Travels and travails, passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement , the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}