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Fifth Business

Fifth Business. The Opera Metaphor. The Opera Metaphor. Who plays the following roles? Why? Prima Donna : always a soprano, always a heroine, often a fool Tenor : the hero, always plays lover to the heroine Contralto : a confidante, rival to the soprano or sometimes a sorceress

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Fifth Business

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  1. Fifth Business The Opera Metaphor

  2. The Opera Metaphor • Who plays the following roles? Why? • Prima Donna: always a soprano, always a heroine, often a fool • Tenor: the hero, always plays lover to the heroine • Contralto: a confidante, rival to the soprano or sometimes a sorceress • Basso: the villain, the rival who threatens the tenor

  3. Title: How does Dunny fulfill the role of Fifth Business? Carl Jung

  4. Liesl asks Dunny “Are you Fifth Business? You had better find out.”

  5. Definition

  6. Neither hero, heroine, confidante nor villain • Essential to bring about the recognition, the revelation, the understanding of the story’s outcome • The baritone • The odd man out, the person who has no opposite of the other sex • Knows the secret of the hero’s birth • Comes to the assistance of the heroine when she thinks all is lost • Keeps the hermitess in her cell • May be the cause of someone’s death • Those who play it sometimes have a career that outlasts the golden voices.

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