As well as Aristotle deciding that 'all drama is conflict' in the 4th century BC, 20th century theorist Strauss suggested that all narratives had to be driven forward by conflict that was caused by a series of opposing forces.
Strauss believed that the way we understand certain words depends not so much on any meaning they themselves directly contain, but much more by our own understanding of the difference of the word and its 'opposites' or as he called it 'binary opposites'.
In a wordle below, I have put together some binary opposites that can usually be found in horror films or even just on an everyday basis.
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