Death of Loved Ones: Georg Polti Plots or Storylines - The 36 Dramatic or Tragic Situations
Abstract
Perhaps witnessing the slaying of kinsmen while powerless to prevent it, or relapsing into primitive baseness through despair on learning of the death of a loved one. 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.
A kinsman slain—The victim beseeches him who has no power to save.
A kinsman spectator—The spectator struggles, appeals, vainly implores.
An executioner—The menacing figure of the executioner dominates, haughty,
sardonic, shadowy, intensifying the keenness of the grief by his pleasure in
it.
Themes
Powerlessness
Witnessing the slaying of kinsmen while powerless to prevent it
Helping to bring misfortune upon one’s people through professional secrecy
Divining the death of a loved one
Learning of the death of a kinsman or ally
Relapsing into primitive baseness through despair on learning of the death of a loved one
George Eliot, arguably the best nineteenth century women novelist, was among those who thought Christianity immoral. God behaved like a “revengeful tyrant”, and that was plainly unethical. The doctrine of “original sin” means God punishes people for something that they are born with as ordinary human beings. What sort of God decides upon this unfair punishment then decided to punish his son instead?
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