All Sacrificed for a Passion: Georg Polti Plots or Storylines - The 36 Dramatic or Tragic Situations
Abstract
Offers a combination of gloom and eroticism—potential for studying nervous pathology. Destruction of honor, fortune and life perhaps by erotic vice. 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.
Ancient texts, whether considered today as literary or historical, have to be read realizing that they were not abstract writings. Every one is commissioned (usually by a king) of scribes (who did not write for fun) for a purpose (often propaganda) with a channel of dissemination (often the temple or prophets) for an audience (mainly the people). Moreover, the ancients did not distinguish categories of writing as we do. What we consider literary works, which might be fantastical or supernatural in storyline, are set in the natural world familiar to the author, and what we regard as historical is often partly fictional whether for propaganda reasons or simply because the records were inadequate and the stories, though hiostorical, became mythologised. In respect of a history of the Jews, our sources, methods, and aims are utterly distinct from those of the original authors of the bible. Scholar Mario Liverani’s book Beyond the Bible dates the Judaean kingdom from about 930 BC.
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