inciting action
the incting action is the single event it the play that sparks the main action the main confict it occurs at that piont in the play where something happens to the leading character that sets that main confict in motion the inciting action then becomes the cief driving force the big bang for all the succeeding action of the play hamlet the inciting action occurs in the fifth scene when the ghosh tells hamlet about the murder and challenges him to take reveng the incting action in oedipus rex occurs in the prologue when creon informs oedipus of the oracle's warning in the school for scandal it happens in 1,2 when sir oilver surface returns to london the inciting action may take on different forms but it is when teach arrive the inciting action