Themes for Crooked Wings
TODO:
-add/remove/edit elements on the document
-WEIGH elements on the document
-how can the protagonists and other characters push these elements?
-how can events and choices push these elements?
Frequency is roughly done as a percentage score but that's not very necessary
| STATEMENT | IMPORTANCE | FREQUENCY | DIRECTNESS |
| "free" unregulated markets allow actors with power to limit freedoms of others | Less Important |
40 | Subtle |
| your worth transcends a paycheck | More Important |
20 | A Little Subtle |
| socioeconomic class is not divinely (or morally) fated | Much More Important |
30 | Direct |
| passing down wealth without property taxes (??) | Much Less Important |
10 | A Little Direct |
| QUESTION | IMPORTANCE | FREQUENCY | DIRECTNESS |
| 'usury' might be a useful financial technology, but... | Much Less Important |
A Little Subtle |
|
| WHAT'S WITH PRIVATE PROPERTY, ANYWAY?! property as refuge property as 'I can kick you out' property as 'I get access to the resources here' |
Important |
Direct |
|
| what is the difference between luxuries and goods? | Less Important |
A Little Direct |
|
| the real enemy isn't some individual person as much as it is INSTITUTIONAL ROT? | More Important |
42 | A Little Subtle |
| IN A CAPITALIST ENVIRONMENT: is the literal possession of money/capital INHERENTLY not-good? [does the money corrupt them?] | Less Important |
Subtle |
|
| Is property theft? | Much Less Important |
1 | Very Subtle |
| What is 'disability'? | Much Less Important |
6 |
A Little Direct |
| How does one want their society to react to 'disabled' people? | Important |
20 |
Direct |
| when can an individual throw up their hands and say 'this is not my problem'? | Much More Important |
Very Direct |
| THEME | IMPORTANCE | FREQUENCY | DIRECTNESS | |
| ABSURD/SLAPSTICK HUMOR | Much More Important |
35 | Very | Direct |
| Satirical humor | Much More Important |
Direct | ||
| exploring how institutions influence and coerce individuals | Less Important |
Moderate? | ||
| you just know that some things are right (slavery was bad) [HEROISM] | Much Less Important |
Subtle? | ||
| moral complexity! | Important |
A Little Subtle? |
...do 'themes' need to be ranked ordinally with each other?
Unsorted notes:
-people second-guess themselves about their difficulties?
CHARACTER INTERACTIONS:
TODO
EVENT INTERACTIONS:
TODO
Link to general theme page