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Ambition: Georg Polti Plots or Storylines - The 36 Dramatic or Tragic Situations
Abstract
Ambition is one of the most powerful passions. Once awakened it will cease only with his death. The objects of its desire might be tyrannical power, high rank, honors, wealth (by inheritance, marriage, robbery, etc). 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.
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Ambition
Ambition is one of the most powerful passions. Once awakened it will cease only with his death. The objects of its desire might be tyrannical power, high rank, honors, wealth (by inheritance, marriage, robbery, etc), avarice (the conservation of wealth), glory (scientific, political, literary, inventive, artistic), celebrity, distinction.
Elements
- An ambitious person
- A thing coveted
- An adversary
Themes
- Ambition watched and guarded against by a kinsman or a patriot friend
- This shows the ties that unite the ambitious one with his adversary leading to situations Slaying of a kinsman unrecognised, Necessity of sacrificing loved ones and Rivalry of superior and inferior.
- …by a brother
- …by a relative or a person under obligation Julius Caesar, Shakespeare
- …by partisans
- Rebellious ambition Henry IV, part 2, Shakespeare
- Ambition leading to crime
- The fury of this category can be increased by mingling it with the sincerity of a faith or a conviction eg the Inquisition, conquest of Mexico etc.
- Ambition and covetousness heaping crime upon crime Macbeth and Richard III, Shakespeare
- Parricidal ambition
