abuse of authority theme
Vested authority is used by someone to illegitimately pursuit their own private goals.
26 total · 2 choice · 14 major · 10 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ahp4x04 | choice | The Adams' were stopped and harassed by a rural police officer. In his monologue, Alfred Hitchcock was accosted by the police. |
| bbf1x16 | choice | Colonel Ari Ben Zayn used his authority to pursue a witch hunt against Sinclair. |
| ahp7x33 | major | Paul abused his authority as department store manager by blackmailing a caught-red-handed shoplifter not into sleeping with him, as the viewer is urged to believe, but rather to play a part in his scheme to make his wife consent to a divorce. |
| ds96x18 | major | Luther Sloan abused his authority as a Starfleet officer to pursue a personal vendetta against Julian |
| ic1976e06 | major | Tiberius and Sejanus persecuted their political opponents by leveling trumped up treason charges. |
| ic1976e07 | major | Tiberius and Sejanus persecuted their political opponents by leveling trumped up treason charges. |
| movie: Ben-Hur (1959) | major | Filled with resentment, Messala jumped on the opportunity to persecute the innocent Ben-Hur and his family gruesomely. He did so both out of anger and out of political convenience because people would see how he treated an old friend, and fear him. |
| movie: The Groundstar Conspiracy (1972) | major | One of the main messages of the film was something about Tuxan abusing his authority by the way of using any means to justify his end of exposing a treasonous senator. |
| movie: The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) | major | the secular powers of England sought to disgrace Joan (thus to score a point against France) and pressured pliant members of the Church to excommunicate Joan for that purpose |
| tftc1989e2x15 | major | Dr. Trask clearly abused his position as head of the sanatorium in order to silence a woman who had witnessed him murder his wife. |