The
overall plot of the Bible is a U-shaped comic plot. The action begins
with a perfect world inhabited by perfect people. It descends into the misery
of fallen history and ends with a new world of total happiness and the conquest
of evil.
The
book of Revelation is the story of the happy end per excellence, as a conquering hero defeats evil, marries a bride
and lives happily ever after in a palace glittering with jewels.
Leland Ryken
Professor
of English
Wheaton College
Wheaton College