Involuntary Crimes of Love: Georg Polti Plots or Storylines - The 36 Dramatic or Tragic Situations
Abstract
The key work here is Sophocles’ Oedipus which stands out among many other works on the same subject. Once the crime is revealed to the committer his state of mind is akin to that of Madness. Many of the trappings of Crimes of Love pertain. 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 key work here is Sophocles’ Oedipus which stands out among many other works on the same subject. Once the crime is revealed to the committer his state of mind is akin to that of Madness. Many of the trappings of Crimes of Love pertain.
Unwitting adultery by an unmarried party must be quite common but no less distressing for some when revealed. Once less common but now not quite so unusual, especially in some parts of the world, is to find the sex of the beloved is not what it seemed!
Elements
A lover
A beloved
A revealer
Themes
The error might only be revealed when it is too late, or at the last minute, with equally dramatic effect.
Marrying one’s mother
Error revealed only when it is irreparable Sophocles’ Oedipus
Marrying one’s sister or daughter
About to violate, unknowingly, a daughter
Having a sister as a mistress
About to take a sister, unknowingly, as a mistress Ghosts, Ibsen
Incest with a sister
Unwitting adultery
Commiting or being about to commit an adultery, unknowingly
Similar cases in which the crime has been planned by a third person
In 1990-91, Saddam Hussein, the autocrat of Iraq, made a sudden transition in the American consciousness from an obscure ally — granted commodities, high technology, weaponry, and even satellite intelligence data — to a slavering monster menacing the world. I am not myself an admirer of Mr Hussein, but it was striking how quickly he could be brought from someone almost no American had heard of into the incarnation of evil. These days the apparatus for generating indignation is busy elsewhere. How confident are we that the power to drive and determine public opinion will always reside in responsible hands?
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