hell hath no fury like a woman scorned theme
The Shakespearian observation that women may take extraordinarily badly to being rejected by someone they are romantically interested in, is put forth.
33 total · 4 choice · 18 major · 10 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) | choice | Lucia wanted to murder Ivan for having left her 20 years ago; Pepa acted crazy and broke things in her flat because Ivan left her |
| owgm1x24 | choice | The story leads up to the following plot twist: Madam Freya risked her own life and liberty in the end by falsely betraying her lover, Jorge Vega, to the secret police that were waiting to catch him. He had not proved himself a conspirator but instead she had caught him entering the apartment of a rivaling young lady. |
| tftc1989e5x10 | choice | Norma had just avenged herself on her cheating husband and planned on teaching Roger a lesson as well, thus avenging herself on mankind on the behalf of all woman-kind. Roger, it transpired, had a second persona who was a jealous vengeful female similar to Norma. |
| tz2002e1x16 | choice | Spurned, Cindy stalked Ben by trapping him in an elevator among other things. |
| ahh1x27 | major | As Luis made it clear that hell would freeze over sooner than he would make good on his promise to marry Ruth, she summarily bashed his head in with a magnum wine bottle, tried to murder young Dominic who was a witness, and then attempted suicide with sleeping pills (prompting the viewer to wonder why she bothered to torment Dominic so first). |
| ahh2x11 | major | It would seem the final drop that drove Edith to murder, was the revelation that Gerald had resolved to up and leave her in the morning no matter what she said. |
| ahp2x23 | major | When Charles tried to leave Beryl, she poisoned him. |
| ahp3x28 | major | Central to the story was the fact that a seemingly mild mannered woman suddenly bashed her husband's head in when he proposed to walk out on her. |
| ahp4x18 | major | Leslie was mighty upset when Brad proposed to marry another woman. She made various threats about causing problems, and also stabbed her rival to death. |
| ahp7x03 | major | The conclusion of the story is that Maria, the marriage wrecking dwarf, avenges herself on Leo after he rejected her romantic overture. |