Discovery of the Dishonor of a Loved One: Georg Polti Plots or Storylines - The 36 Dramatic or Tragic Situations
Abstract
A psychological struggle similar to Necessity of sacrificing loved ones but with a high ideal substituted by shame. Discovery of the shame of a lover. 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.
“In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.”
A psychological struggle similar to Necessity of sacrificing loved ones but with a high ideal substituted by shame.
Elements
A discoverer
A guilty one
Themes
Discovery of the shame of a close relative
a mother’s shame Mrs Warren’s Profession, Shaw
a father’s shame
a daughter’s dishonor
Discovery of the shame of a lover
dishonor in the family of one’s fiancee
violation of one’s wife
…before mariage
…since the marriage
that they has previously committed a fault
that one’s wife has formerly been a prostitute
dishonor on the part of a lover
that one’s mistress, formerly a prostitute has returned to her old life
that one’s lover is a scoundrel or one’s mistress is a woman of bad character
the same discovery concerning a so-called king
that one’s wife is a woman of bad character
Discovery that one’s son is an assassin
Duty of punishing or sacrificing
This might be a distinct situation. There is the discovery and the duty of imposing punishment as well. It might be an intermediate between Necessity of sacrificing loved ones and the rest of this main category.
…a son who is traitor to his country
…a brother who is traitor to his party
…a son condemned under a law which the father has made
…a son believed to be guilty
…a father, until then unknown, to fulfil a vow of tyrannicide
One and a half millennia after the triumph of Christianity — only four centuries ago, but before the enlightenment — Queen Anne was the last Stuart monarch of Great Britain, obviously as privileged a human being as it was possible to be, and with the best medical care money could buy.
In the last seventeen years of the seventeenth century, she was pregnant eighteen times. Only five children were born alive. Only one of them survived infancy. He died before reaching adulthood, and before her coronation in 1702.
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