Doomsday Book

Connie Willis, 1992

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Quadrant Scores

Time Structure
LinearFractured
Pacing
Action-DrivenObservational
Threat Scale
IndividualSystemic
Protagonist Fate
VictoryAssimilation
Conflict Style
Western CombatKishōtenketsu
Price Type
PhysicalIdeological
Todorov's Stages
equilibrium
Description of the starting status quo.
disruption
The inciting incident or protocol failure.
recognition
When the protagonist realizes the disruption.
repair
The attempt to fix or survive it.
new equilibrium
The new, altered status quo.

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# Structural Analysis

## 1. Protocol Fiction Mapping (Summer of Protocols)
- **Render a Rule:** 
- **Rehearse a Failure Mode:** 
- **Reveal a Human Insight:** 

## 2. Actantial Model (A.J. Greimas)
- **Subject:** 
- **Object:** 
- **Sender (Destinator):** 
- **Receiver (Destinatee):** 
- **Helper:** 
- **Opponent:** 

## 3. Todorov's Equilibrium Model
- *See YAML Frontmatter for stage breakdown.*

## 4. The Freytag Pyramid
- **Exposition:** 
- **Climax:** 

## 5. Propp's Morphology of the Folktale
- **Applicable Narratemes:** 

## 6. Genette's Narrative Discourse
- **Order / Duration / Focalization:** 

## 7. The Monomyth / Hero's Journey
- **Subversions:** 

## 8. Dan Harmon's Story Circle
- **The Take (The Price Paid):** 

## 9. Save the Cat! Beat Sheet
- **Pacing Deviations:** 

## 10. Kishōtenketsu (Four-Act Structure)
- **Applicability:** 

## 11. The Three-Act Structure
- **Plot Points:** 

## 12. Lévi-Strauss's Binary Oppositions
- **Primary Binary:** 
- **Secondary Binary:** 
- **The Mediator:** 

## 13. Cognitive Estrangement (Suvin / Shklovsky)
- **The Familiar Concept:** 
- **The Estranging Mechanism:** 
- **The Cognitive Shift:** 

## 14. Bakhtin's Chronotope
- **The Spatial Matrix:** 
- **The Temporal Flow:** 
- **The Point of Intersection:** 

## 15. Aristotelian Poetics
- **Hamartia:** 
- **Peripeteia:** 
- **Anagnorisis:** 

## 16. Jungian Archetypal Analysis
- **The Persona:** 
- **The Shadow:** 
- **The Anima/Animus:** 
- **The Trickster:** 

## 17. Genette's Transtextuality
- **Intertextuality:** 
- **Paratextuality:** 
- **Metatextuality:** 

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Characters21

MarySenior physician; Dunworthy's ally

Senior physician managing the Oxford epidemic, Dunworthy's close friend; reveals the first fatality and that the virus is not the South Carolina strain.

Dr. Mary AhrensDr. AhrensGreat-Aunt Mary
KivrinTime-traveling history student, protagonist

Time-traveling history student immersed in medieval Christmas, anxious about locating her drop site before the rendezvous while navigating household politics and forming bonds with the children.

Lady KatherineIsabelKatherine
BadriIncapacitated key witness

Recovering technician who reveals the slippage was too small and confesses he refed the coordinates while already feverish, explaining how Kivrin ended up in 1348.

the techBadri ChaudhuriMr. Chaudhuri
GilchristActing Head of Mediaeval; antagonist-adjacent

Acting head of Mediaeval who locks the time-travel laboratory under quarantine to placate anti-net protesters, blocking Dunworthy's attempt to read Kivrin's fix.

MontoyaOxford archaeologist; helper

Oxford archaeologist present at the drop; primarily concerned with returning to her dig site; subjected to contact tracing under quarantine.

LatimerOxford colleague

Kivrin's tutor, elderly and infirm; present at the drop; participates in contact tracing.

FinchMinor / Dunworthy's secretary

Dunworthy's assistant at Balliol; reports the police barricades and quarantine to Dunworthy, and is managing stranded American bell-ringers.

ColinMary's great-nephew, teenage companion

Mary's energetic great-nephew who fetches historical data on plague progression across Oxfordshire and obtains paper for Dunworthy's forged authorization.

DunworthyProtagonist (2054 strand); Kivrin's mentor

Oxford academic managing the 2054 epidemic crisis; blocked by Gilchrist from accessing the laboratory; attempting to locate Basingame and a tech to read the fix.

Mr. DunworthyJames
Mrs. GaddsonComic obstacle; quarantine intruder

Overbearing visitor in 2054 hospital; reads scripture aloud to Dunworthy and attempts to withhold bad news from him.

GawynMedieval household knight; key information-holder

The man who found Kivrin on the road; knows the location of her drop site but keeps riding away before she can get the information.

Father RocheMedieval village priest

Village priest; simple and compassionate; treats Agnes's infected knee with herbal infusion and accepts Kivrin's suggestion of old wine as antiseptic without question.

Roche
EliwysMedieval noblewoman; helper

Lady of the manor; exhausts herself tending Agnes; grows feverishly ill; insists on waiting for her husband Gawyn to return.

Lady Eliwys
Lady ImeyneMedieval noblewoman; suspicious observer

Guillaume's domineering mother who secretly sent Gawyn further afield than admitted, delaying his return and blocking Kivrin's hope of locating the drop.

the mother-in-lawthe old womanImeyneImyene
AgnesChild of the medieval household

Eliwys's younger daughter; dies on the day after New Year's, still screaming for Kivrin; her death marks the emotional climax of the medieval strand.

Maisrysecondary

Ragged servant girl present during the clerk's seizure, pressing herself into the wall in terror.

Rosemundsupporting

Eliwys's elder daughter; gravely ill with plague but survives; awakens asking for food and pragmatically contemplates her marital fate.

AndrewsHelper/technician

Tech in Reading who agrees to read Kivrin's fix remotely and run parameter checks on the 1320 drop rather than enter the quarantine zone.

Polly WilsonHelper

Andrews's student contact at Shrewsbury who agrees to set up remote transmission equipment at Brasenose.

The clerksecondary

Bishop's clerk who arrives already infected, suffers violent seizure and delirium, and is the first confirmed plague case; confirms the year is 1348.

bishop's clerk
The stewardminor

Manor steward who buries multiple family members; found collapsed in a grave he dug, likely killed by septicaemic plague.