personal life and death dilemma theme
A character must make a difficult choice regarding whether someone else lives or dies.
Notes
When a character is contemplating sacrificing their own life for one reason or another, the theme category "human self-sacrifice" is used.
Examples
"cannibalism to survive" refers to any of a number of gruesome scenarios in which a character deprived of other food must decide whether they will accept killing and eating another human in order to survive.
5 total · 1 choice · 1 major · 3 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| owgm1x24 | choice | The political refugee and concert pianist Madam Freya was faced with the following tough decision: Either go against every moral fiber of her being by collaborating with the secret police and sacrificing her lover, or refuse and risk them following through on their threat to inflict career ending injuries to her hands. |
| movie: PeutEtre (1999) | major | Should Arthur impregnate his girlfriend or not? If he did, then his future son Ako and Ako's descendants would go on living happily in the future; otherwise they would cease to exist. |
| movie: Lawrence of Arabia (1962) | minor | Lawrence executed his friend Gasim in order to save the peace between the tribes. |
| movie: Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (2004) | minor | A trooper strangled a mortally wounded fellow trooper to put him out of his misery. |
| rh2012e2x10 | minor | Kevin was faced with this unenviable dilemma: Either run away and leave his girlfriend to hang, or get and get shot in the head with a nail gun. Fortunately for Kevin and his love interest, Roger came to the rescue before Kevin had to make the call. |