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Here are the five acts:
I. Men and Maggots Exposition of the action. The conditions aboard the battleship. Meat teeming with maggots. Unrest among the sailors.
II. Drama on the Quarter-Deck
"All hands on deck!" The sailors' refusal to eat the maggoty soup. The tarpaulin scene. "Brothers!" Refusal to fire. Mutiny. Revenge on the officers.
III. The Dead Cries Out
Mist. Vakulinchuk's body in the Odessa port. Mourning over the body. Meeting. Raising the red flag.
IV. The Odessa Steps
Fraternization of shore and battleship. Yawls with provisions. Shooting on the Odessa steps.
V. Meeting the Squadron
Night of expectation. Meeting the squadron. Engines. "Brothers!" The squadron refuses to fire.
The action in each part is different, but they are permeated and cemented, as it were, by the method of double repetition.
In "Drama on the Quarter-Deck" a handful of mutinous sailors — part of the battleship's crew — cry, "Brothers!" to the firing squad. The rifles are lowered. The whole of the crew joins thn rebels.
In "Meeting the Squadron" the mutinous ship — part of the navy — throws the cry "Brothers!" to the crews of the Admiral's squadron. And the guns trained on the Potemkin are lowered. The whole of the fleet is at one with the Potemkin.
From a particle of the battleship's organism to the organism as a whole; from a particle of the navy's organism — the battleship — to the navy's organism as a whole. This is how the feeling of revolutionary
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