- You Are Forced to Do Potential Evil
- You Are Forced to See Through the Eyes of Someone You Don't Like or Are Ambivalent About
- Ambivalence Toward a "Friend"
- Ambivalence Toward an "Enemy"
- Ambivalence Toward a Situation
- You Discover You've Been Tricked
- Helpless to Aid Someone You Love
- What's Good and What's Evil Is Not Black and White
- Forced to Violate Your Own Integrity
- Creating Emotionally Complex Moments and Situations Through Incongruence1
Helpless to Aid Someone You Love
The next hypothetical game is set in ancient days. You play the warrior. Your true love has been capturedby aliens! She's a thousand miles awayyou don't know wherebut you can see her image in the magical waters. And you're unable to help her, at least for now. To be able to see someone you care about who's in grave danger, but not be able to help, is emotionally complex.
Consider a related example, where nymphs are captured in front of the trees they protect.
This is an emotionally complex scene because the trees watch on, unable to help the forest nymphs, whom they love.
But another technique is used here that also makes the moment emotionally complex: