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The Thirty-seven Dramatic Situations 13-18
13. ENMITY OF KINSMEN. Elements: A malevolent kinsman, a hated or reciprocally hating kinsman. |
A Hatred of siblings:
A1 One sibling hated by several.
A2 Reciprocal hatred between siblings.
A3 Hatred between relatives for reasons of self-interest. |
B Hatred of parent and child:
B1 Hatred of the child for the parent.
B2 Mutual hatred.
B3 Hatred of the parent for the child. |
C Hatred of grandparent for grandchild. |
D1 Hatred of parent-in-law for son-in-law or daughter-in-law.
D2 Hatred of two brothers-in-law or sisters-in-law |
E Hatred of son-in-law (daughter-in-law) for mother-in-law. |
F Infanticide. |
14. RIVALRY OF KINSMEN. Elements: the preferred kinsman, the rejected kinsman, and the object. |
A1 Malicious rivalry of a sibling.
A2 Malicious rivalry of two siblings.
A3 Rivalry of two brothers, with adultery on the part of one. |
B1 Rivalry of parent and child, for an unmarried lover.
B2 Rivalry of parent and child, for a married lover.
B3 Case similar to the two foregoing, but in which the object is already the spouse of the parent.
B4 Rivalry of parent and child. |
C Rivalry of cousins. |
D Rivalry of friends. |
15. MURDEROUS ADULTERY. Elements: Two adulterers, betrayed husband or wife. |
A1 The slaying of a husband by, or for, a paramour.
A2 The slaying of a trusting lover. |
B Slaying of a wife for a paramour, and in self-interest. |
16. MADNESS. Elements: Mad person and victim. |
A1 Kinsman slain in madness.
A2 A lover slain in madness.
A3 Slaying or injuring of a person not hated. |
B Disgrace brought upon oneself through madness. |
C Loss of loved ones brought about by madness. |
D Madness brought on by fear of hereditary insanity. |
17. FATAL IMPRUDENCE. Elements: The imprudent, the victim or the object lost. |
A1 Imprudence the cause of one's own misfortune.
A2 Imprudence the cause of one's own dishonor. |
B1 Curiosity the cause of one's own misfortune.
B2 Loss of the possession of a loved one, through curiosity. |
C1 Curiosity the cause of death or misfortune to others.
C2 Imprudence the cause of a relative's death.
C3 Imprudence the cause of a lover's death.
C4 Credulity the cause of kinsman's death.
C5 Credulity the cause of misfortune.
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18. Involuntary Crimes of Love. Elements: The lover, the loved, and the revealer. |
A1 Discovery that one has married one's mother.
A2 Discovery that one has had one's sibling as a lover. |
B1 Discovery that one has married one's sibling.
B2 Discovery that one has married one's sibling, in which the crime has been villainously planned by a third person.
B3 Being upon the point of taking one's sibling, unknowingly, as a lover. |
C Being upon the point of violating, unknowingly, one's own child.
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D1 Being upon the point of committing an adultery, unknowingly.
D2 Adultery committed unknowingly. |
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