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.

32. Remorse

Works on remorse are small in number but are terribly beautiful. There are many varieties of remorse according to:

  1. the fault committed, eg any crime possible in law, some which are not illegal, real or imaginary intentional or unintentional, or intended but not committed (allowing a happy ending) or intended and committed, premeditated or otherwise, with or without complicity or outside influences or subtlety or whatever;
  2. the nature of the culprit—impressionable or not, or nervous;
  3. the surroundings, the circumstances, the morals which prepare the way for Remorse.

With remorse is connected the fixed idea, recalling madness or criminal passion. It is often remorse for a desire, nourished by the constantly reviving desire, mingling with it, growing with it like a moral cancer, sapping the soul's vitality to the point of suicide.

Elements
  1. A culprit
  2. A victim or the sin
  3. An interrogator
Themes
  1. Remorse for a crime
  2. Remorse for love