Obstacles to Love: Georg Polti Plots or Storylines - The 36 Dramatic or Tragic Situations
Abstract
Here is a common theme but can seem irritating when all the parties have to do, if they love so strongly, is to elope and start from scratch. In fact usually some device makes them equals and the play can end happily. 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.
Here is a common theme but can seem irritating when all the parties have to do, if they love so strongly, is to elope and start from scratch. In fact usually some device makes them equals and the play can end happily. More serious obstacles than money are age, character, tastes, etc, and they are more common.
A general theory applies to age: the first love (20 years) seeks equality of rank and superiority of age; the second (30 years), boldness having been acquired, seeks superiors in rank but equals in age; the third inclines to younger and socially inferior people.
Of course, whatever the subject of a drama, today a love aspect will be introduced.
Elements
Two lovers
An obstacle
Themes
Marriage hindered or prevented
Here is the sentimental situation of many 18th century works: a Lord falls for a peasant girl. In Georges Sand a woman falls for a man of lower rank…
by inequality of rank
by inequality of fortune
by enemies and contingent obstacles
because the woman was previously betrothed to another
the same complicated by an imaginary mariage
Successful marriage impeded or disturbed
by the opposition of relatives
by the parents-in-law
A union spoiled by the incompatibility of temper of the lovers
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