An Enemy Loved: Georg Polti Plots or Storylines - The 36 Dramatic or Tragic Situations
Abstract
The chief emotional element is the same as in Flight. Love serves to represent the pursued man under various favourable lights. The beloved becomes in some ways the equivalent of the Greek chorus. 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 chief emotional element is the same as in Flight. Love serves to represent the pursued man under various favourable lights. The beloved becomes in some ways the equivalent of the Greek chorus. Suppress the love interest and replace it with anything else however weak, or by nothing, and a situation Flight remains with all its terrors. But suppress the enmity leaving only the love and nothing remains! Love is suitable for comedy or better still farce but cannot in itself be tragic
Elements
A beloved enemy
A lover
A hater
Themes
1. The loved one hated by kinsmen of the lover
The lover pursued by the brothers of his beloved The Duchess of Malfi, Webster
The lover hated by the family of his beloved
The lover is the son of a man hated by the kinsmen of his beloved
The beloved is an enemy of the party of the woman who loves him
The lover or beloved the slayer of a friend/kinsman of the other
The lover is the slayer of the father of his beloved
The beloved is the slayer of the father of her lover
The beloved is the slayer of the brother of her lover
The beloved is the slayer of the husband of the woman who loves him but
who has previously sworn to avenge that husband
a previous lover instead of the husband was slain
The beloved is the slayer of a kinsman of the woman who loves him Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare
The beloved is the daughter of the slayer of her lover’s father
Jesus (Mt 5:33-37) forbids oaths, yet Leviticus 19:12 implied it was common to swear them, though they had not to be false. It is another of Jesus’s commandments that Christians, those holy Joes who name themselves after Christ, ignored utterly, and so today the most Christian countries have people swearing oaths daily in courts of law. Despite Chrit’s injunctions, no one ever trusted a Christian to tell the truth, and so oaths were necessary to remind them they were supposed to do so.
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