TEMPATION AND THE LAW
Religion aside, sin might bring us the legal consequences know as divorce, fines and criminal convictions. Misdeeds need to be paid for. Stare at our blood stained hands… Hence the temptation’s conflict: I won’t be caught. I enjoyed doing it but now I’m paranoic looking over my shoulder. I’m so bloody happy I don’t give a bone on consequences… Till there’s the sight of the avenger-law (which lately requires vigilantes to fulfill the role against corporatives and the long etcetera).
This is why temptation plot is propaganda plot. Plot reveals the moral code of the writer. Writers, we can’t strip from our morals when deciding the ruling idea. We can strip of it at the time of thinking like a character but never when choosing the ending.
MORAL CODES
Our plot has a different moral code? We will need a scene to show how it works. Or many. Explanations are in need so we can understand the character’s choices. Author’s moral is not the only thing on sight. There are Earthly and local codes ingrained to the core of the narrative.
«Evil» varies in scale. In Brimstone and Roses (webtoon, yet to be finished), it is illegal; not immoral, to summon a devil. Temptation can be something as bland as crossing the lines of illegality…
Specially if we can universe crossover. Like in Parallel (movie, 2018), where parallel universes do exist and we can find dead lovers, inventors or artists living in similar economies and social environments. All reachable by special entrances in mirrors.
What’s the temptation? Sell advanced and potentially lethal technologies to the military in OUR universe. Shoot yourself to dead to be with the already deceased lover. Steal your own novels from the other me… More talented. The movie accepts little to no punishment… If you don’t take being killed by your dopple ganger as punishment. I mean, you are you, right?
FAIRYTALES
Temptation is the great topic of fairy tales. «Don’t do» and doing follows. Blue beard’s wife opens the door. Now we have the corpses and the plot thickens.
Ronald B. Tobias exemplifies temptation in a Grimm’s fairytale I haven’t found in the Porrua edition[1]: Our Lady’s child. A tale I might add to the next entry.
Are you tempted to like the entry? Please do. Or not; you might find the corpses. Pasto kalo.
[1] For your information and even if you haven’t requested it, Porrua is a thrifty Mexican publishing house which prints the most famous and popular books in a tiny typography and Bible paper (the super thin kind).