The Conventional Story

I like how he talks about the conventional story. He gives the example of Moses in the Bible and says "That's a conventional type of story, the mysterious birth of a hero. It was told about a Mesopotamian king long before there was any Bible; It was told about Perseus in Greek legend; then it was passed into literature with Euripides' play Ion; Then it was used by Plautus and Terence and with other writers of comedies; then it became a device in fiction, used in Tom Jones and Oliver Twist". This shows that one story is used over and over again but in different ways, from a legend to comedy to American popular literature. He says that literature is timeless no matter what the story is and it can be used over and over again and every time it can seem different and refreshing, which is Frye's point in the chapter.