Hatred of Kinsmen: Georg Polti Plots or Storylines - The 36 Dramatic or Tragic Situations
Abstract
Antithesis is the fount of art, particularly dramatic art, through the conflict it generates. Hatred of one who should be loved (this situation) and love of one who should be hated and An enemy loved offer a nice symmetry. If you have been intending to start that novel or screenplay but felt short of ideas, here is the Wise Women’s synopsis of plot to give you a few ideas. May the Goddess inspire you. Saviour Shirlie.
Antithesis is the fount of art, particularly dramatic art, through the conflict it generates. Hatred of one who should be loved (this situation) and love of one who should be hated and An enemy loved offer a nice symmetry.
Three points:
The more close the bonds which unite kinsmen who disagree, the more savage and dangerous their outbursts of hatred.
If the hatred is not mutual the situation will tend toward other dramatic situations listed here in which one relative is tyrant and the other victim.
The problem is to find a powerful enough reason for the close ties of kinship to be sundered.
Plainly any relationship could be fruitfully explored. The enmity of two brothers-in-law, ex-rivals, is explored in Jean Jullien’s La Mer (1891) in which emotion increases after the death of the principle character thus reflecting life where sorrow is often not fully felt until after a death. Hatred between sisters is not uncommon and offers the chance of studying feminine enmities, so lasting and so cruel. The antipathy of a mother and the husband of a young woman is commonplace and perhaps is therefore not adequately treated.
The hatred between the kinsmen can be modified. The role of a party torn between the two contending people can be explored, eg the wife and mother caught between a father and son conflict.
Elements
A malevolent kinsman
A hated or reciprocally hating kinsman
Themes
Hatred of brothers
One brother hated by several
Reciprocal hatred
Hatred between relatives for reasons of self-interest
Hatred of parents and children, one way or mutual
Of a son for his father
Of a daughter and her father
Hatred of grandfather for grandson. A facet of Hamlet, Shakespeare
Once we crowded the churches to pray for deliverance from disease. Now we use hygeine and antiseptics, dig drains and inoculate people. Once we crowded the churches to pray for rain. Now we seed clouds with crystals. Once we we crowded the churches to pray for a good harvest. Now we use science and technology. Why are churches crowded today? Praying never eliminated the need for prayer, science and technology have.
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