Goldengirl story
A former Nazi doctor creates a super athlete out of his adoptive daughter and enters her into the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
9 total · 6 major · 3 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| father and daughter | major | Goldine's father had injected her with vitamins and hormones from childhood and had her life carefully managed so that she would enter and win three races at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. |
| performance-enhancing drugs | major | Goldine's father had been injecting her with special athletic ability enhancing hormones from childhood. |
| sports | major | Peak physical specimen Goldine had her entire life was carefully managed from childhood in order to ensure that she would win three gold medals in running events at the Moscow Olympics. |
| the desire to be liked | major | In spite of Goldine being conditioned to seek fame and glory in athletic competition, all she really wanted was affection from others. |
| the future of human evolution | major | Serafin was using Goldine to try to prove some kind of theory that humans were evolving to get bigger and stronger overtime, although the details were never coherently explained. |
| unethical human experimentation | major | Serafin used his daughter as a guinea pig in an effort to prove his theory of human evolution. Goldine ended up getting diabetes as a result of the growth hormone injections that Serafin had given her over the years. |
| human health condition | minor | Goldine was diagnosed with diabetes and had to take pills to keep her blood sugar level under control. |
| loss of emotional equilibrium | minor | Goldine started acting in a most egotistical and paranoid manner in Moscow when her blood sugar level got out of whack. |
| mass consumerism | minor | Jack Dryden asked Goldine whether she thought commercialism was ruining the Olympic Games. |