The concept of intrigue can be analyzed from several perspectives. On the one hand, it is a strategy to achieve some purpose. At the same time, it is something that arouses intense curiosity. Finally, there are literary and cinematographic approaches related to this idea.
Intrigues and machinations
If one or more people organize a secret plan to obtain some benefit, they are carrying out an intrigue. Normally this action has some characteristics: a plan based on cunning and ingenuity, a dose of mystery and concealment so that the objective to be achieved is not known to others and a certain capacity for manipulation.
Someone participates in an intrigue when they do not want their true intentions known. These types of strategies are quite common, especially in the political and economic spheres.
When we are very curious about something or someone
Let's imagine that we want to have more information about a person because their behavior is suspicious and strange to us. In this context, we will say that we are intrigued. The same can happen if someone tells us about an episode shrouded in mystery.
Certain mysteries or strange phenomena are so inexplicable that they inevitably cause an attraction effect. When this happens we say that we are intrigued. The mystery of the construction of the pyramids, the world of aliens or the enigma of the Bermuda Triangle are some examples in this regard.
Conspiracies and conspiracies are circumstances in which intrigue is the most characteristic element.
In fiction
In the detective genre, in black novels and in mystery films, intrigue plays a leading role. Something is half-told in the plot and there is a kind of puzzle that the reader or the viewer must try to solve.
The idea of intrigue is similar to another, suspense. Both in literature and in the cinema, the genre of intrigue is spoken of to refer to all those creations that are based on mystery, enigmas and hidden secrets.
In the field of fiction, the idea of intrigue can be expressed in many ways: with characters who hide a mystery or a secret, through apparently inexplicable situations, with a sinister setting or raising all kinds of doubts that must be resolved.
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