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The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirty-Six_Dramatic_Situations The 36 situations[edit] Each situation is stated, then followed by the necessary elements for each situation and a brief description. Supplication a persecutor; a suppliant; a power in authority, whose decision is doubtful. The suppliant appeals to the power in authority for deliverance from the persecutor. Deliverance an unfortunate; a threatener; a rescuer The unfortunate has caused a conflict, and the threatener is to carry out justice, but the rescuer saves the unfortunate. Examples: Ifigenia in Tauride, Deliverance Crime pursued by vengeance a criminal; an avenger The criminal commits a crime that will not see justice, so the avenger seeks justice by punishing the criminal. Example: The Count of Monte Cristo Vengeance taken for kin upon kin Guilty Kinsman; an Avenging Kinsman; remembrance of the Victim, a relative of both. Two entities, the Guilty and the Avenging Kinsmen, are put into conflict over wrongdoing to t