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Aiming for the Heart

Congratulations! If you have come this far, you have accomplished your quest. We have arrived at our goal, that of providing the audience with emotionally satisfying experiences. Once the audience decides what something means, they automatically feel emotions. This is an amazing aspect of how our minds work. They don’t even have to think about it.

Meaning evokes emotion!

Do We Really Identify with the Hero?

What does it actually mean to identify with the hero? What are we identifying with? How can we identify with someone ...

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