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===Deontic===

[[Deontic]] modal operators (P-operators) influence the construction of [[fictional worlds]] as proscriptive or prescriptive norms, i.e. they indicate what is prohibited, obligatory, or permitted in the fictional world. The deontic marking of actions is the richest source of narrativity; it generates the famous triad of the fall (violations of a norm – punishment), the test (obligation fulfilled – reward), and the predicament (conflict of obligations) stories. An example in literature of a story of the fall would be Mme. De Renal, in [[StendahlStendhal]]’s ''[[The Red and the Black|Le Rouge et le Noir]]'' (1830). An example of a deontic alien in literature, a person who “exempts himself from the world’s codex and follows his own principles” is Raskolnikov, the protagonist of F.M. [[Dostoevsky]]’s ''[[Crime and Punishment]]'' (1866).

===Axiological===