Wise Women Discuss—Plot!

The 36 Tragic Situations

Though women have been starved of creative opportunities over the centuries of patriarchal bullying, they have proved in one important field that they are not creatively inferior to men—in writing. Adelphiasophists are keen that all people should be creative and that their efforts should be appreciated. 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.

26. An Enemy Loved

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

1. A beloved enemy
2. A lover
3. A hater

Themes

1. 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
2. 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