despair theme
A character feels that all hope is gone.
22 total · 7 choice · 7 major · 8 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: Hamlet (1948) | choice | Hamlet was thought to have gone mad. He was also brooding over existential matters, suicide, etc. |
| movie: Stalker (1979) | choice | We heard that only the most wretched people who have lost all hope, have any chance of making it to the magic room. |
| movie: Winter Light (1963) | choice | Jonas despair to such an extent that he killed himself; Tomas had a similar crisis of fate, do did not go to such extreme lengths |
| owgm1x26 | choice | The story culminates in John Cambridge taking his own life in the boardinghouse room where a woman, named Louise, who was very dear to him had taken her life just a week prior. In the case of Louise, she went to the city thinking that she'd become a big star, but ended up staying at a depressing boardinghouse while eking out a living in the unforgiving theater business. John took took his life in despair. |
| play: Hamlet (1602) | choice | Hamlet was thought to have gone mad and he was, in fact, brooding over existential matters, suicide, etc. |
| tng3x20 | choice | Tam Elbrun :: Tam living among humans |
| tz1959e1x32 | choice | Joey got into much a dark state of mind that he tried to kill himself. |
| bbf4x02 | major | Delenn especially seemed to despair |
| blackmirror7x01 | major | Jobless and without the means even to keep Amanda's brain running, Ted and Amanda despaired to the point that they decided to end it all. |
| movie: Dead Mans Letters (1986) | major | The nuclear war survivors shared a bleak outlook over any prospects of rebooting civilization, and they mostly resigned themselves to accepting that humankind was done for. |