The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.
I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life.
Heaven knows I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.
Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.