
In literary criticism, an idiot plot is `a plot which is kept in motion solely by virtue of the fact that everybody involved is an idiot` and where the story would otherwise be over if this were not the case. It is a narrative where its conflict comes from characters not recognizing, or not being told, key information that would resolve the conf.....
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