History repeating is an esoteric story, revolving around key moments repeating through the span of history, revealing an overall arc to our life in this universe.
A deeper meaning to our existence that will climax at the end of the story.
Perhaps to prepare humanity for its true purpose or destiny.
@Antony you’re right, a lot of modern day film scripts have characters based on archetypes and bullet story points from ancient literatures eg Greek etc.