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Loss of loved ones

Disciplines > Storytelling > Plots > Polti's Situations > Loss of loved ones

Description | Discussion | See also

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Description

Elements

• A Kinsman Slain

• A Kinsman Spectator

• An Executioner

Summary

The Kinsman Spectator sees the Kinsman Slain being killed by the Executioner.

Variants

A

1. Witnessing the slaying of kinsmen while powerless to prevent it
2. Helping to bring misfortune upon one's people through professional secrecy

B

1. Divining the death of a loved one

C

1. Learning of the death of a kinsman or ally

D

1. Relapse into primitive baseness, through despair on learning of the death of a loved one

Discussion

'Loss of loved ones' is the 36th of Georges Polti's 36 Dramatic Situations.

See also

Recovery of a lost one

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