Adelphiasoplot
Conflict with a God: Georg Polti Plots or Storylines - The 36 Dramatic or Tragic Situations
Abstract
Wise Women Discuss—Plot!
Conflict with a God
The most ancient of plots. From it could spring nearly all the other situations. It is the supreme folly. It allows of the ultimate of ambitions, the most audacious enterprises, elaborate conspiracies, outlandish abductions, the most intriguing enigmas, burning passions and prodigious rivalries. Other participants might sympathise with one they should hate, or punish him for his crime, sacrifice him to his faith or sacrifice themselves for him. Kinfolk will be divided over the issue. The disaster will break leaving the mortal crushed before those he loves or, worse, dishonored or massacred them in a blind delerium. Suppliants might seek the lost loved one or seek mercy on his behalf but the god’s vengeance is unmittigated. The god can be a demon of course. Today this grouping has been ignored.
In modern drama and narrative, the god would normally be metaphorically a god, a mogul or superstar when the story has many aspects, verging into Rivalry of Inferior and Superior.
Elements
- A mortal
- An immortal
Themes
- Controversy or struggle with
- …a god
- …the believers in a god
- Defying or rivaling a god
- …willfully
- …imprudently
- Punishment for
- …contempt of a god
- …pride before a god
