What is intrigue? It's a secret. It excites, ignites, directs, inspires. The intrigue is in the flight of Icarus, the smile of the Mona Lisa, the secret of the Grail, Malevich's “Black Square”. Only the secret is stationary, and the intrigue induces action, otherwise it makes no sense. This action is “contrary”, and not “for,” which is why it is attractive. This is a crazy desire, which, once born, can never become a reality and remain only the author’s intention, but can gain strength as a result of accidental circumstances and people who find themselves at the right time and place. This is a fiction of man, and not the craft of abstract "higher forces", so the intrigue makes a person stronger.
Intrigue - an attribute of palace coups
What is intrigue? This is an indispensable attribute of palace coups. Thirty-four years of conspiracies, denunciations, hatred of secret plans, the ups and downs of great people - this is what the era of palace coups involved in intrigue is. How could Martha Skavronskaya think, being a Markitan (the French version of the laundress in a train) at the beginning of the Northern War, what would ascend to the throne of one of the great empires that Russia became at the end of this war?
Generalissimo Alexander Danilovich Menshikov, who called Peter the Great in his own way “min hertz”, who actually ruled the country under Catherine I, could not even imagine in terrible dreams that he would die in a small village with the modest name Berezov, having survived along the way from St. Petersburg to the place of exile, the death of his wife, and then the beloved eldest daughter.
Backstab
Intrigue - a cruel weapon, radically changing the situation, and the most disgusting, ageless. Palace coups have remained in history, but even today you can get a sneaky stab in the back from intriguers who envied the new car, wife (husband), apartment, friendships with the boss, and just that there are good people on earth.
Intrigue and love
Intrigue exalts. Love is born from flirting. Illumination: “I love this man!” - comes sometimes like a flash. Why is he or she? Unclear. Most often they fall in love with unfamiliar people, rewarding them in the mind with those qualities that seem most beneficial to a hero-lover or a mysterious stranger. While the intrigue lives, love lives on. They say marriages are broken about everyday problems. Or maybe the reluctance to create new intrigues is to blame? She shrouds in mystery and makes her act, seek her, sacrifice something - this is the meaning of love relationships. Great love with high thoughts, in which there is sacrifice, is called love affair. Sophisticated love aimed at meeting immediate needs is a love affair. Fell out of love or fell out of love - it means that the love object has become available, lost its mystery, stopped worrying. What is an intrigue? That which can rekindle extinguished feelings.
Destruction
Intrigue destroys. And not only the fate of people, but also entire states, religions. Ancient Rome had a whole pantheon of gods, their rule seemed unshakable, like the greatness of Rome. In one of the Messianic sects of Judaism, the idea of the coming of the Messiah, the messenger of God, who will save the oppressed and destitute, who inhabited not only one Roman province, but also the vast Roman Empire, appeared. The intrigue lay in the incomprehensible goodness of heaven, which always threatened people with punishment and fire. There is an idea, there are followers, there are actions. The first Christians fell victim to spectacular spectacular torture, creating an intrigue: it means that God is so strong if they go to death for him. The pagan gods were crushed by Christianity. The state itself also disintegrated. The Jews did not recognize the Messiah, but the intrigue remained, because people of the whole world are waiting today for the second coming of Christ, who will pay tribute to the righteous and punish the wicked.
So what is intrigue? The meaning of the word "intrigue" according to Ushakov: hidden actions to achieve any goal; the plot of a drama or romance around which the action develops, love relationships. Thus, intrigue is a secret, as the beginning of a subsequent activity, which is characteristic only of the human mind.