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[French ‘unravelling’]

In a narrative or drama, the final resolution of the conflicts, mysteries, or misunderstandings in the plot; the tying up of loose ends, typically in a final scene or chapter, providing narrative, structural, and, many argue, ideological closure. In contemporary works of high art, endings may be ambiguous and resolve nothing. See also classical narrative structure.

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