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Fifth Business

• The Opera Metaphor

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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

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Title How does Dunny fulfill the role of Fifth
Business?
Carl Jung
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Liesl asks Dunny Are you Fifth Business? You
had better find out.
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• Definition

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• Neither hero, heroine, confidante nor villain
• Essential to bring about the recognition, the
  revelation, the understanding of the storys
  outcome
• The baritone
• The odd man out, the person who has no opposite
  of the other sex
• Knows the secret of the heros 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 someones death
• Those who play it sometimes have a career that
  outlasts the golden voices.