Simple List of Dramatic Situations

Love Story: 
• • Obstacles to Love
• • An enemy loved
• • Hate
• • Crimes of Love
• • Enmity of kinsmen
• • Adultery
Disaster:
• • Dude With a Problem
• • Monster
• • Literal Monster
• • Madness
• • Murderous adultery
• • Falling prey to cruelty or misfortune
• • Out of the Bottle
Mistake:
• • Fatal imprudence
• • Mistaken jealousy
• • Erroneous judgment
• • Decision
• • Wretched Excess
• • Slaying of a kinsman unrecognized
• • Mistaken Identity
Mystery:
• • The Enigma
• • THE RIDDLE
• • Why-Dun-It
Rites of Passage:
• • TRANSFORMATION
• • MATURATION
• • DISCOVERY
• • Loss of loved ones
• • Remorse
Deliverance:
• • Recovery of a lost one
• • Abduction
• • RESCUE
• • Supplication
Crime:
• • Vengeance
• • REVENGE
• • Pursuit
• • Involuntary Crimes of Love
• • Discovery of the dishonor of a loved one
Sacrifice:
• • Self-sacrificing for an ideal
• • Self-sacrifice for kindred
• • All sacrificed for a passion
• • TEMPTATION
• • Necessity of sacrificing loved ones
• • Institutionalized
Rivalry:
• • Ambition
• • QUEST
• • ADVENTURE
• • Golden Fleece
• • Daring enterprise
• • Obtaining
• • Rivalry of kinsmen
• • Rivalry of superior and inferior
• • UNDERDOG
• • Fool Triumphant
• • Superhero
Freedom: 
• • Revolt
• • Conflict with a god
• • Escape