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.

33. Death of Loved Ones

Elements

1. A kinsman slain—The victim beseeches him who has no power to save.
2. A kinsman spectator—The spectator struggles, appeals, vainly implores.
3. An executioner—The menacing figure of the executioner dominates, haughty, sardonic, shadowy, intensifying the keenness of the grief by his pleasure in it.

Themes

1. Powerlessness
• Witnessing the slaying of kinsmen while powerless to prevent it
• Helping to bring misfortune upon one's people through professional secrecy
2. Divining the death of a loved one
3. Learning of the death of a kinsman or ally
4. Relapsing into primitive baseness through despair on learning of the death of a loved one