Conflict with a God: Georg Polti Plots or Storylines - The 36 Dramatic or Tragic Situations
Abstract
The most ancient of plots. From it could spring nearly all the other situations. It is the supreme folly. It allows of the ultimate of ambitions, the most audacious enterprises, elaborate conspiracies, outlandish abductions, the most intriguing enigmas, burning passions and prodigious rivalries. 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.
The most ancient of plots. From it could spring nearly all the other situations. It is the supreme folly. It allows of the ultimate of ambitions, the most audacious enterprises, elaborate conspiracies, outlandish abductions, the most intriguing enigmas, burning passions and prodigious rivalries. Other participants might sympathise with one they should hate, or punish him for his crime, sacrifice him to his faith or sacrifice themselves for him. Kinfolk will be divided over the issue. The disaster will break leaving the mortal crushed before those he loves or, worse, dishonored or massacred them in a blind delerium. Suppliants might seek the lost loved one or seek mercy on his behalf but the god’s vengeance is unmittigated. The god can be a demon of course. Today this grouping has been ignored.
In modern drama and narrative, the god would normally be metaphorically a god, a mogul or superstar when the story has many aspects, verging into Rivalry of Inferior and Superior.
The descendants of deinonychus, the family of dromaeosaurs, were agile, skilful predators with large brains. Few good fossils have been found but it has been conjectured that they were more common, and more successful, than the fossil record suggests, their habitats not being conducive to fossilization—just like the apes and hominids, mankind’s ancestors!
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