EPILOGUES AND MOOD CHANGES. The controversy over the epilogue to HARRY POTTER is not unusual. Epilogues often present a decisive change in mood which may be unwelcome. I have posted earlier on how early Shakespeare plays would have had a jig, a raucous comic episode, at the conclusion of the play, even a tragedy like ROMEO AND JULIET. Many opera lovers want to eliminate the cheerful epilogue (in the form of a chorus) after Don Giovanni is dragged down to Hell in a dark and terrifying scene.
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There’s nothing wrong with happy endings, in fact I often prefer them. The sudden change of mood must be convincing, however. Aristotle wrote about this in Poetics, that the quality of fiction can be assessed by the believability of changes in plot.