Disaster: Georg Polti Plots or Storylines - The 36 Dramatic or Tragic Situations
Abstract
In classical drama has been undeveloped, especially the disaster to a whole society. Only the Greeks have dealt with it adequately. Latterly it has become immensely popular in film. 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 classical drama has been undeveloped, especially the disaster to a whole society. Only the Greeks have dealt with it adequately. Latterly it has become immensely popular in film.
Elements
A vanquished power
A victorious enemy or a messenger
Themes
Disaster on a large scale
Defeat suffered
A fatherland destroyed War of the Worlds, Wells
The fall of humanity
A natural catastrophe
An individual suffering…
…loss of position as of a monarch overthrown Richard II and Henry VI, Shakespeare
…ingratitude Timon of Athens and King Lear, Shakespeare
Pollution is a symptom of increasing entropy, a scientific measure of disorder. By creating greater order in constructing themselves, life forms reduce entropy within their bodies and perhaps in their immediate surroundings but in so doing they vastly increase entropy in the world at large. The more such creatures there are, the more disorder, the more entropy, they create.
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